From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Tim Mann <mann@vmware.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc4-git6] forcedeth: use unicast receive mode for WoL
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:15:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4679B50E.7080605@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070614131638.1a5cef4c@mann-lx.eng.vmware.com>
Tim Mann wrote:
> I happened to notice that a system with an NVidia NIC using the
> forcedeth driver won't wake-on-LAN if the interface was in promiscuous
> mode when you power off. By experiment, it looks like
> the hardware needs to have NvRegPacketFilterFlags set to
> NVREG_PFF_ALWAYS|NVREG_PFF_MYADDR (i.e., receive unicast packets to my
> address) in order for WoL to work.
>
> Jeff Garzik writes: "NVIDIA says the patch looks OK." I didn't venture
> to insert a signed-off-by line with his name on it, though.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Mann <mann@vmware.com>
applied to #upstream-fixes (2.6.22)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-20 23:15 UTC|newest]
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2007-06-14 20:16 [PATCH 2.6.22-rc4-git6] forcedeth: use unicast receive mode for WoL Tim Mann
2007-06-20 23:15 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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