Scenario - Dell Latitude D820 laptop, tg3 driver says this at boot:
eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM5752KFBG) rev 6002 PHY(5752)] (PCI Express)
10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet 00:15:c5:c8:33:4e
eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
eth0: dma_rwctrl[7618] dma_mask[64-bit]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(a) the Dell factory default is WOL disabled and (b)
if it wasn't
the default, I'd have *set* it to disabled, and (c) I even
went back and
rebooted and checked the BIOS setting - disabled. Nonetheless:
# ethtool eth0 | grep Wake
Supports Wake-on: g
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:04:28 PST, Michael Chan said:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(a) the Dell factory default is WOL disabled and (b)
if it wasn't
the default, I'd have *set* it to disabled, and (c) I even
went back and
rebooted and checked the BIOS setting - disabled. Nonetheless:
#
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 01:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Issue:
I (for unrelated reasons) run powertop, and it suggests I conserve power
by doing 'ethtool -s eth0 wol d'. I look at it, and think that it's daft,
because (a) the Dell factory default is WOL disabled and (b) if it wasn't
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:34:57 PST, Michael Chan said:
Ideally, the BIOS should modify the NVRAM's setting when it is changed.
We will talk to Dell to get their opinion on this as this is very
confusing to the user.
That would certainly explain what I'm seeing, and I can certainly wait
if the
