Re: Request for testing remote wakeup during STD

[Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>]

Hi.

On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 12:08 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > Hi Alan.
> 
> > I'd love to be able to help you. My lappy loads ehci and lsusb shows the
> > controller, but I'll be darned if I can find the socket! I have other
> > things to get done right now, but if no-one beats me to it, I'll try the
> > desktop I have - I think that has ehci somewhere.
> 
> Thanks, Nigel.  You mean your laptop has an EHCI controller but no USB
> ports?  That's odd...

Yeah. I have three USB ports on it, but two of them seem to be connected
to one controller (going by lsusb after plugging my Palm into each of
them).

> Anyway, here are instructions for you or anyone else who can do the test.  
> (I forgot to include them in the original message.)  Running the test
> involves two steps.
> 
> The first step is to check that an unpatched system supports Wake-on-USB.  
> This means enabling it in the BIOS and/or in ACPI (whatever that might
> entail; I have no idea what's needed) and actually trying it out.  Either
> plugging or unplugging a USB device while the system is in STD should wake
> the machine up.
> 
> The second step is to see whether Wake-on-USB continues to work after
> applying the patch mentioned previously.  That's the real question.
> 
> It may turn out that _nobody_ has Wake-on-USB working at all... in which 
> case we'd have a different problem to solve.

Thanks!

Nigel