On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, NB wrote:
> Why would the Matrox Graphics card be in the way sort to speak, I
> thought that the nge0 NIC drivers are the only concern, when my
> machine is on and working the Matrox PCI graphics card work very
> well.
Fundamental issue is that the machine must first be able to suspend
before it can be awakened by WOL. And (to the best of my knowlege),
the Matrox card isn't supported for suspend/resume in Solaris. So if
it cannot suspend, the system won't.
So we need to first get your machine to properly suspend *and*
resume, and then work on enabling WOL. Taking the s/r debugging
of-list (probably uninteresting for networking-discuss).
---- Randy
>
> By Nvidia FB, do you mean front Bus, if that's the case then my
> motherboard is equiped with an Nvidia front bus.
>
> My intention is only to wake my machine up via another machine on
> the same LAN (I am sure waking the machine via WAN will be a whole
> different ball game, even machines that are working well with WOL
> via LAN sometimes struggle to do the same via WAN).
>
> Could I possibly use the same perl tool that you are using and is
> working, will it work with my set up?
>
> I can see that my NIC is awake sort to speak as the light are on and
> I should imagine it's still powered, this I think is taken care off
> by the settings in the bios where the Wake up by onChip LAN is
> Enabled, as for the NIC drivers to be ready to accept the magic
> packets I am not sure about that.
>
> In my mind the user interaction with the NIC drivers should only
> happen if the user requires WOL to be used on his machine and for
> this there should be different commands available for the user
> depanding on which NIC manufacturer he is using.
>
> Is there a work around to get WOL working on my set up quickly as I
> am pretty desperate as I am running out of hdd space on my PC and
> would like to offload some of the data to the NAS, but I don't want
> to fully commit and offload all this data only to find that WOL will
> not work.
>
> I will help as much as I can as a user if needed to get a good
> Solaris solution on the shelf sort to speak.
>
> Many thanks & best regards
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