Wake-up on LAN for Broadcom BCM5721

Fri Mar 27 08:36:54 PDT 2009

why you want to activate WOL while computer is already on power?

it's in BIOS options

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, regis505 wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have a Broadcom BCM5721 network adapter and I wonder how I can trigger the
> Wake-up on LAN feature. ifconfig does not report any WOL options. Something
> I could add in rc.conf or with sysctl to activate it? I am running
> 7.1-STABLE.
>
> Thanks
>
> bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>        ether **:**:**:**:**:**
>        inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>        status: active
>
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