CFT: re(4) WOL support

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 17:11:35 PST 2008


On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:14:25PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote:
 > Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Attached patch enables WOL capability on re(4). Since there are too
 > > many variants of hardwares that uses re(4), I'd like to hear
 > > success/failure report of the patch prior to commit. You can wake
 > > the system in suspend state as well as power down state. Because
 > > suspend/resume does not work on my box I don't know whether waking
 > > up from suspend work. WOL packets can be greated with tools like
 > > ports/net/wol.
 > 
 > Suspending doesn't work on my system either,
 > but I successfully tested wake-up from power-down state with:
 > 
 > fk at africanqueen ~ $pciconf -lv | grep -A 4 re0
 > re0 at pci0:0:9:0: class=0x020000 card=0x816910ec chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
 >     device     = 'RTL8110SB Single-Chip Gigabit LOM Ethernet Controller'
 >     class      = network
 >     subclass   = ethernet
 > 
 > fk at africanqueen ~ $ifconfig re0
 > re0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
 >         options=399b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
 >         ether [...]
 >         inet 192.168.5.48 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.5.255
 >         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
 >         status: active
 > 
 > I didn't notice any regressions.
 > 
 > Thanks for all the effort you put into re(4), much appreciated.
 > 

Thanks for your testing!

 > Fabian

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon


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