wake-on-lan support? (WOL)

[Alexander Kühn]

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Hi,
Wake-On-Lan (WOL) is something that has next to nothing to do with the
installed OS. If it's a x86 PC you need a ATX power supply and board, a
network card that supports WOL, have the powerconnector of the network
card connected to the board, so it has power even if the machine is
powered down. You need to enable it in the PC bios and for some NICs
also in the NIC's BIOS as well (e.g. RTL 8139) using a NIC specific tool
(usually under DOS). Then you should do a soft powerdown (e.g. halt -p)
and then send the magic packet to the subnet the WOL machine is in.
Unfortunatly there are also different magic packets send by different
tools and some of the are not available on FreeBSD (e.g. Donald Becker's
ether-wake, which works for me).
I hope this helps,
Alexander.

Alexander Mayer wrote:

| Hi,
|
| is wake-on-lan possible on a PC running FreeBSD? I want to boot my
| FreeBSD-PC with wake-on-lan. In Linux there is a problem with many
| drivers because they disable wake-on-lan. Only a few drivers give the
| possibility to enable this feature. What about FreeBSD?
|
| Alex
|
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