On 5/12/09, Tim Judd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Peter Steele <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD >> system? If yes, what NICs did you need to use to get this to work? >> > > Search the archives. The question of Wake-on-LAN has been around for a > while. I typically respond. > > Long story short: Wake-on-LAN requires OS/NIC driver support. The OS puts > the NIC in a mode at shutdown that allows Wake-on-LAN to work. FreeBSD has > no Wake-on-LAN driver support, hence, no host running FreeBSD has > Wake-on-LAN capabilities.
FUD, read ifconfig(8) > > I'm shocked that the Intel NICs don't have this support, given that Intel > provides such excellent documentation and/or drivers for FreeBSD. > > Please search the archives. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > -- Paul _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
