amd64/184718: HP MicroServer N40L, WOL packet doesn't wake up the computer

[Simon Magrin]

>Number:         184718
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       HP MicroServer N40L, WOL packet doesn't wake up the computer
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 12 10:30:00 UTC 2013
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>Originator:     Simon Magrin
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE
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>Environment:
FreeBSD sm1 9.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE #0 r255898: Thu Sep 26 22:50:31 UTC 2013     root at bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
WOL is enabled in BIOS. When I boot into Debian Linux (v7 x64) on another disk, WOL works. With FreeBSD, I cannot wake the host by sending a WOL packet from all computers I've tried.

This MicroServer N40L only has the onboard Broadcom (bge) NIC installed.

I've tried enabling WOL via 'ipconfig';

# ifconfig bge0 wol wol_ucast wol_mcast

After a power cycle, the verbose from ipconfig doesn't provide any indication (WOL_MAGIC) that it's enabled or supported.

I've tried loading the NIC driver as a start up module in the loader.conf;

if_bge_load="YES"

After a power cycle, still no go. I even tried loading known working driver (From FreeNAS forum post, see link below) to correct this;

http://forums.nas4free.org/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=2974

Though 'if_bge.ko' didn't work as well.

Cheers

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