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.
I was discussing WoL with a colleague recently and he suggested that on
some Linux systems he needed to use `ethtool -s eth0 wol g` on every boot
to maintain the WoL status.
>From the ethtool(1) manpage:
wol p|u|m|b|a|g|s|d...
Set Wake-on-LAN options. Not all devices support this.
g Wake on MagicPacket(tm)
>From my reading, this might be necessary if the driver clears the flag
during initialisation of the card.
kern/83807 was filed to fix this issue for sis(4), but was never
committed. However, work is apparently being done in 8-CURRENT to support
exposing the WoL settings to ifconfig: see
http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan . Until that work lands in a release, I
think we're out of luck.
(Another administrator has also suggested that, on Linux at least, using
the 'ifdown' command will destroy WoL status, but I don't think that's an
issue here.)
Hope that helps. I'm sure any contributions to the effort to add driver
support will be appreciated.
David Adam
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