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[Stefan Sperling]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:52:21PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > That page pretty much summarises the state of affairs, yes.
> >
> > Basically, you need a VIA-based ethernet card card (vr driver)
> > and -CURRENT, or a vr card with 7.0 and patches from here:
> > http://www.stsp.name/wol/FreeBSD-8-CURRENT-wol-backported-to-7.0/
> > All of those. Except the patch for pxe.c, that's there by accident.
> >
> > If you don't have a vr card, you will likely need to do some
> > hacking. Follow the links from the wiki page for more information.
> >
> >   
> trouble% cd sys/dev/
> trouble% grep -l IFCAP_WOL */*.c
> age/if_age.c
> jme/if_jme.c
> re/if_re.c
> stge/if_stge.c
> vr/if_vr.c
> 
> So 5 drivers right now support WOL.  Jack said em had support a while 
> back but he seems to have not hooked it up.

Nice! I'll update the wiki page accordingly.

What's with if_sis? Isn't it in yet because my patch only
supports the NatSemi variant? (I have no idea whether the
other variants work alike or not.)

Stefan