Re: [Forcedeth] Wake-on-LAN support?

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@xxxxxxx>]

Arjen Verweij wrote:
> L.S.,
> 
> First, many thanks for your efforts. The driver works beautifully here,
> with 2.4.23 and 2.6.0-test11 alike.
> 
> I was wondering if it is possible to add Wake-on-LAN support to the
> driver. NVidia claims their binary driver supports WOL, but it doesn't
> work one bit. It is possible to look into this?
> 
> I have filed a bugtracker with the ACPI people, but they are somewhat
> understandably preoccupied with fixing laptop woes.
> 
> URL:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636
> 
> I am able to enable WOL at shutdown with pci-config from scyld.com, but
> this is obviously an ugly fix.

Hmmm... normally I would say enabling WOL is the job of the BIOS.

Comments anyone?

Setting Wake-on-LAN patterns will be supported in a future version of
forcedeth but right now I'm swamped with university work.


Carl-Daniel
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