wake-on-lan support?

Manuel Rabade mig at mig-29.net
Sun Nov 2 21:42:07 PST 2003


I also use wake-on-lan to turn on my laptop from my nat box when i leave it
home, i have a 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL (the xl driver) and works fine,
the only thing that i setup to make it work was my bios: turn on the
'Wake-On-Lan' option.

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:25:40AM +0100, Elessar wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:29:40 +0100
> Hi
> 
> I use WOL (sometimes) with freeBSD and ports/net/wol/
> Basically, when I am not at home to wake up my desktop via wol from
> my nat-box.
> The nat-box is RELENG-4_7 with two fxp (Intel NIC) and the desktop
> a ASUS CUSL-2 with 933mhz pIII and another fxp running RELENG_4.
> Other setups may differ.
> 
> It was some time ago when I used this for the first time, but I can't
> remember to have turned something on. It just worked ;]
> Be sure to also check the posting from Alexander Kuehn regarding
> the hardware issues.
> 
> Joerg




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