Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
--On May 12, 2009 6:33:03 AM -0700 Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: So, based on what I've read here and in my searches, for wake-on-LAN to work on a given system, the NIC itself has to support this feature, and in addition the OS has to be able to enable this feature (via the driver for the NIC). It seems likely that when this appears that a new option will be provided for the ifconfig command. Since we're stuck on 7.0, I guess the only option is to implement it ourselves... I'm on 7.2 STABLE. man (8) ifconfig mentions wol, so the capability at least exists in 7.2. In grepping through the device sources, it looks like the e1000 driver has wol capabilities enabled as do a couple of others. You may be able to use that code at least to get headway in creating drivers, if you can't use those existing drivers. If you're using the e1000 driver already (I believe you mentioned you're running Intel NICs), you may be able to use wol out of the box without making any changes. Seems worth testing at least. Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ** WARNING: Check the headers before replying ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
I just noticed my 7.2-R i386 PC-Engines ALIX2 board with vr devices show up (WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC) in the ifconfig listing. Seems they're making some of it available in 7.2-RELEASE I'll have to test/try this out, I'm glad I'm starting to see it happen. Unfortunately we're pretty much stuck on 7.0... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:36:31AM -0700, Peter Steele typed: FUD, read ifconfig(8) There is no mention of wake-on-LAN in the man page for ifconfig in 7.0. I'd be interested in seeing if the 8.0 man page has added anything. It has: wol, wol_ucast, wol_mcast, wol_magic Enable Wake On Lan (WOL) support, if available. WOL is a facil- ity whereby a machine in a low power state may be woken in response to a received packet. There are three types of packets that may wake a system: ucast (directed solely to the machine's mac address), mcast (directed to a broadcast or multicast address), or magic (unicast or multicast frames with a ``magic contents''). Not all devices support WOL, those that do indicate the mechanisms they support in their capabilities. wol is a syn- onym for enabling all available WOL mechanisms. To disable WOL use -wol. Ruben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:36:31AM -0700, Peter Steele typed: FUD, read ifconfig(8) There is no mention of wake-on-LAN in the man page for ifconfig in 7.0. I'd be interested in seeing if the 8.0 man page has added anything. It has: wol, wol_ucast, wol_mcast, wol_magic Enable Wake On Lan (WOL) support, if available. WOL is a facil- ity whereby a machine in a low power state may be woken in response to a received packet. There are three types of packets that may wake a system: ucast (directed solely to the machine's mac address), mcast (directed to a broadcast or multicast address), or magic (unicast or multicast frames with a ``magic contents''). Not all devices support WOL, those that do indicate the mechanisms they support in their capabilities. wol is a syn- onym for enabling all available WOL mechanisms. To disable WOL use -wol. Ruben I just noticed my 7.2-R i386 PC-Engines ALIX2 board with vr devices show up (WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC) in the ifconfig listing. Seems they're making some of it available in 7.2-RELEASE I'll have to test/try this out, I'm glad I'm starting to see it happen. Thought you'd all like to know. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
On 5/12/09, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
Tim, I know nothing about WOL on FreeBSD, but according to the wiki, development just started in 8 CURRENT: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan I came across that same reference. Unfortunately we're stuck on 7.0. I take it the point of the wol command that available in the ports collection is that it can be used to wake any system that supports wake-on-LAN, and these systems can be running any OS. So, based on what I've read here and in my searches, for wake-on-LAN to work on a given system, the NIC itself has to support this feature, and in addition the OS has to be able to enable this feature (via the driver for the NIC). It seems likely that when this appears that a new option will be provided for the ifconfig command. Since we're stuck on 7.0, I guess the only option is to implement it ourselves... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
FUD, read ifconfig(8) There is no mention of wake-on-LAN in the man page for ifconfig in 7.0. I'd be interested in seeing if the 8.0 man page has added anything. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
Peter Steele wrote: I came across that same reference. Unfortunately we're stuck on 7.0. I take it the point of the wol command that available in the ports collection is that it can be used to wake any system that supports wake-on-LAN, and these systems can be running any OS. So, based on what I've read here and in my searches, for wake-on-LAN to work on a given system, the NIC itself has to support this feature, and in addition the OS has to be able to enable this feature (via the driver for the NIC). It seems likely that when this appears that a new option will be provided for the ifconfig command. In some cases (depending on the NIC and the BIOS) WOL works even without OS support. It might be worth testing before you do anything else. -- Christian Laursen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
In some cases (depending on the NIC and the BIOS) WOL works even without OS support. It might be worth testing before you do anything else. I've tried various experiments with the wol command to try to wake up one of our boxes with no luck. We're using the stock nVidia driver. There is also no mention of wake-on-LAN in the BIOS, although there is an option for enabling wake-on-ring (something different). I've sent an email to our suppliers to see what they have to say about wake-on-LAN support for these boxes. We may need a BIOS upgrade. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
--On May 11, 2009 8:06:41 PM -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: I've read Google, I've done my research, and know that what I say is the last word. They've exampled how WOL works, and as I said, it's a mode the NIC gets set to and then the ACPI shuts the power off. Without this mode, the WOL packets get to it, but it doesn't consider them magic, and as a result, it will not power on the box. There were some examples, but not enough testing/any testing results were posted online so I assume the poster left it stagnant. Tim, I know nothing about WOL on FreeBSD, but according to the wiki, development just started in 8 CURRENT: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan So unless you're running CURRENT, it doesn't look like you're going to have any success trying to get it to work. Even if you have 8 CURRENT, you'll still need to figure out if your NIC is supported yet, or write the code yourself if you have that capability. Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. Been using WOL on -STABLE since 7.0 I believe [not sure] Currently using WOL on fxp and vr cards [which wiki lists as supported] /usr/ports/net/wol and then: wol -vi 172.20.6.255 00:30:6e:11:f8:45 this box was both public IP and private IP - If I do a wol broadcast on 255.255.255.255 it will not wake up the other box, plugged into same switch - but doing broadcast on local subnet wakes it up any ideas? I do have an nvidia card, if I boot the bios/POST ONLY, and not let it go into FreeBSD [hard power off at boot prompt], WOL works [via BIOS]. If I boot up FreeBSD, do graceful shutdown WOL no longer works. ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com 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? Yes, with CURRENT and re(4): f...@africanqueen ~ $pciconf -lv | grep -A 4 re0 r...@pci0:0:9:0: class=0x02 card=0x816910ec chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8110SB Single-Chip Gigabit LOM Ethernet Controller' class = network subclass = ethernet Fabian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com 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. 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
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. 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. I did do a search before posting and I wasn't very encouraged by what I found. You've confirmed my findings, unfortunately. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD system? wake on lan works before any OS is started, actually before computer is powered up - as it's made to power up computer by LAN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
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 isn't it BIOS option? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Has anyone successfully used the wake-on-LAN tool wol to wake-up a FreeBSD system? wake on lan works before any OS is started, actually before computer is powered up - as it's made to power up computer by LAN Like normal, you've completely missed the point. I will try not to scream at you. I've read Google, I've done my research, and know that what I say is the last word. They've exampled how WOL works, and as I said, it's a mode the NIC gets set to and then the ACPI shuts the power off. Without this mode, the WOL packets get to it, but it doesn't consider them magic, and as a result, it will not power on the box. There were some examples, but not enough testing/any testing results were posted online so I assume the poster left it stagnant. Wojciech - I get so disappointed, you seem to mislead people more than the rest. I strongly encourage you to read into the topics BEFORE you post to the mailing list. --TJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
--On May 11, 2009 8:06:41 PM -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: I've read Google, I've done my research, and know that what I say is the last word. They've exampled how WOL works, and as I said, it's a mode the NIC gets set to and then the ACPI shuts the power off. Without this mode, the WOL packets get to it, but it doesn't consider them magic, and as a result, it will not power on the box. There were some examples, but not enough testing/any testing results were posted online so I assume the poster left it stagnant. Tim, I know nothing about WOL on FreeBSD, but according to the wiki, development just started in 8 CURRENT: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan So unless you're running CURRENT, it doesn't look like you're going to have any success trying to get it to work. Even if you have 8 CURRENT, you'll still need to figure out if your NIC is supported yet, or write the code yourself if you have that capability. Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ** WARNING: Check the headers before replying ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Wake-on-LAN support in FreeBSD?
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.comwrote: --On May 11, 2009 8:06:41 PM -0600 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: I've read Google, I've done my research, and know that what I say is the last word. They've exampled how WOL works, and as I said, it's a mode the NIC gets set to and then the ACPI shuts the power off. Without this mode, the WOL packets get to it, but it doesn't consider them magic, and as a result, it will not power on the box. There were some examples, but not enough testing/any testing results were posted online so I assume the poster left it stagnant. Tim, I know nothing about WOL on FreeBSD, but according to the wiki, development just started in 8 CURRENT: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan So unless you're running CURRENT, it doesn't look like you're going to have any success trying to get it to work. Even if you have 8 CURRENT, you'll still need to figure out if your NIC is supported yet, or write the code yourself if you have that capability. Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ** WARNING: Check the headers before replying Paul, That's excellent news, and I will remember this as something to look forward to. Seems to be a very important thing to many people and I'm glad we're moving that way. Thank you, Paul for the update. --TJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org