On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:09:22PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Walker > > > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:37 AM > > > To: Kent Hauser; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > Subject: Re: Wake-on-LAN and the em driver (freebsd 7.x) > > > > > > > > > I would like to know of any other easier ways to do this. > > > > Any network admin worth his salt has an old win98 system tucked > > away that can be used to create bootable dos cd's. > > Don't know much about the value of salt, but the old Win 98 machine > I have around has a dead CD and dead floppy as well. Guess they are > replaceable, but is it worth money and bother? > > I wouldn't be surprised if there are many like that sitting around. > > ////jerry > > > And if your > > really a wizard you have a windows for workgroups 3.11 system > > tucked away as there are devices (notably HP JetDirect print servers) > > that can only be firmware-updated from that platform, plus you > > have a genuine DOS system with an > > EGA card and monitor in inventory, like I do. ;-) I'm sure one of > > these days I'll need it for something... > > > > The ultimate guru's of course, have in addition to this, a trash-80, > > an Apple II, a Commodore PET, and a VAX 11/70 plus the 3-phase power > > to run it - and still remember how to boot all of them.... > > > > Ted > You comments got me to thinking, I have tossed all my old PC/AT, W98, etc systems a while back (along with my old Foghat 8-tracks -- yes I cruised to Fool for the City on 8-track), but I still had a W98SE boot CD -- and amazingly enough it worked. And it recognized my flash drive as B: no problem. So step 1 complete. Now I seem to have run up against a FreeBSD 7.x ACPI bug. Now that WOL is turned on, if I "halt -p", I get the HUB LED to come back on -- but I can't wake the machine. However, if I pull the power on the box & plug it back in, I can WOL the machine fine. Everything is fine when booted in XP. Any thoughts on this one? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
