can not wake on lan after halt -p (or shutdown -p now) on releng_7 and releng_7_0

[David Adam]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:41:59AM +0800, David Adam wrote:
>  > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Georgi Iovchev wrote:
>  > > I have a shutdown problem. I have a machine with gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
>  > > motherboard. Integrated network card is Realtek 8111B.
>  > > I can not wake the computer after I shutdown it from FreeBSD.
>  > > It is a dualboot system - windows xp and freebsd. If I shutdown the
>  > > computer from windows - later I can wake it up with magic packet. Even
>  > > if i shutdown the machine on the boot menu with the power button - than
>  > > later I can wake on lan. The only situation where I CANNOT wake it is
>  > > when I shutdown the machine from freebsd (halt -p).
>  > > 
>  > > First I tested with 7.0-RELEASE-p5 amd64 (RELENG_7_0) and than I
>  > > upgraded to 7.1 PRERELASE amd64 (RELENG_7). I also tested with two
>  > > network cards - the integrated one Realtek 8111B and another one Intel
>  > > PRO1000PT PCI-E with WOL enabled.
>  > > 
>  > > With both nics and both freebsd versions the situation is the same -
>  > > after shutdown from bsd the computer is not able to wake on lan. The
>  > > indication on the switch port says that after shut down there is
>  > > active link.
>  > 
>  > I have a similar problem with an Intel SR1200 Pentium 3-class system, 
>  > using fxp(4) cards, although I haven't yet tried the `halt -p` command.
>  > 
> 
> fxp(4) should be taught to support WOL. Also note, not all fxp(4)
> hardwares support WOL.

Both of the fxp(4) interfaces on my development system certainly support 
WOL, so although I'm no kernel programmer I'd be more than happy to test 
patches or provide developer access.
 
David Adam
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au