From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 30 11:39:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 160C116A407 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:39:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane.co.uk [62.140.220.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA14343D60 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:39:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.10.217] (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.13.7/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k9UBdZpF063558 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:39:36 GMT (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4545E471.9060200@unsane.co.uk> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:39:29 +0000 From: Vince User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061017) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Horne References: <200610281245.40150.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20061029030745.GA3839@dan.emsphone.com> <200610290918.09954.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <200610290918.09954.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd equivelent to the linux ethtool command? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:39:48 -0000 Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:07, Dan Nelson wrote: >> In the last episode (Oct 28), Jonathan Horne said: >>> i have a computer that recently stopped obeying WOL packets, after i >>> did a dual boot of freebsd/suse 10.1. before i put suse on there, >>> WOL always worked just fine. >>> >>> apparently, the linux driver for my network card, put the nic in >>> "always off" mode, and in order to be able to WOL later, i have to >>> shut the linux off in "wol g" mode (using ethtool, so it can listen >>> for packets later). even in freebsd now tho, its still not listening >>> for WOL packets. is there something in freebsd i can use to edit the >>> behavior of the driver, to make sure the nic powers down in >>> "wol-listen" mode? >> I didn't even know you could toggle WOL outside of the BIOS. Check >> there, or maybe your NIC's config page (Ctrl-S during bootup for Intel >> nics). > > > so, finally, this brings me back to my os of choice. freebsd is using the > same nic that linux and windows are using, and those drivers are configurable > for wake-yes or wake-no. now i just need to figure out if this setting is > available to be adjusted in freebsd, and if how, how do i speicify it? > A quick google leads me to belive that this isnt supported in FreeBSD currently, I found a patch for 5.3 if_xl [1] and a pr for a patch for if_sis in 7-current as of july 2005 [2] which lead me to some patches for 6.x at [3] so its possible but not committed. hope this helps, Vince [1] http://www.wand.net.nz/~bcj3/420/userguide/remote.php [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/83807 [3] http://www.stsp.in-berlin.de/wol/ > cheers, > jonathan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"