Tracing Wake on Lan problem?

Vincent Hoffman vince at unsane.co.uk
Tue Aug 11 15:37:50 UTC 2009


Matthew Hagerty wrote:
> Bob Bishop wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 11 Aug 2009, at 04:55, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to get the Wake on Lan feature working on a 7.2-release
>>> box. [etc]
>>
>> You may need to turn WoL on in the BIOS, have a look in the same
>> place as the LAN boot settings.
>>
>> -- 
>> Bob Bishop
>> rb at gid.co.uk
> I guess I assumed that, since the WoL works with my Intel Pro/100 NIC,
> that the APCI and wake-up settings in the BIOS were set correctly.  It
> is only when I try the Pro/1000 that I'm having problems; and it seems
> to be a driver or config issue.
>
> Matthew


I think  you are out of luck as yet. according to
http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan
grep -l IFCAP_WOL /usr/src/sys/dev/*/*.c 
should get a list of drivers that support WOL.

16:28:19 <~>)
[jhary at crab] 0 $ grep -l IFCAP_WOL /usr/src/sys/dev/*/*.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/ae/if_ae.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/age/if_age.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/alc/if_alc.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/ale/if_ale.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/jme/if_jme.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/nge/if_nge.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/stge/if_stge.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/txp/if_txp.c
/usr/src/sys/dev/vr/if_vr.c
(16:28:21 <~>)
[jhary at crab] 0 $ uname -r
7.2-STABLE

The Pro/1000 driver is if_em (or if_igb) So i think you are out of luck
on 7.x


Vince

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