From: Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: lucas75it@yahoo.it, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Linux and Wake-On-Lan
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 23:15:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <112220000.1052342133@gate.muc.bieringer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030507.010630.48509535.davem@redhat.com>
--On Wednesday, May 07, 2003 01:06:30 AM -0700 "David S. Miller"
<davem@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Gianluca Masone <lucas75it@yahoo.it>
> Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 11:05:30 +0200 (CEST)
>
> Suppose i put a net device in wake-on-lan status.
> There is some kernel function that notifies presence
> of a wake packet ?
>
> This is not how wake-on-lan works.
>
> When your computer is put to sleep (via APM or ACPI),
> the network card can listen for the wake packets.
>
> If it is listening and a wakeup packet is received, your computer
> wakes up from sleep state.
>
> All of this happens in the hardware, all Linux can do is
> enable/disable the feature.
That's right, but afair at least one driver has problems with this.
It's here not working with the eepro100 driver. The e100 works.
See here for more details:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84695
Peter
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-07 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-07 9:05 Linux and Wake-On-Lan Gianluca Masone
2003-05-07 8:06 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-07 21:15 ` Peter Bieringer [this message]
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