On Monday 19 April 2004 21:11, Arjen Verweij wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is the wol support in forcedeth v25 complete yet? I was trying it with the
> 2.6.5 kernel it came with, tried the new forcedeth driver with a 2.6.3
> kernel (because firewire seems broken in 2.6.5) however, my box will not
> wake up as of yet.
You're right! It _was_ working with patch-forced-0.25, but it ain't in 2.6.5.
I'll see if I can spot the problem.
> According to the source there is a FIXME with a comment about powering
> down the NIC. Does this mean that support for wol is incomplete for now?
> Mind you, I am just curious, this is in no way meant as criticism.
That would only be for when WOL is NOT used; I think it has to leave the NIC
powered up for WOL to work... and as you say it ain't implemented yet.
> On another note, Carl-Daniel mentioned that DEV_NEED_TIMERIRQ might be
> removed from future releases. Is this still the case? Feedback would be
> much appreciated, so I can keep my humble audience up to date on what's
> going on at the wol front.
>
> Thank you guys for your excellent work,
>
> Arjen
> http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/verwei90/nforce2/index.html
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