From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Bieringer Subject: Re: Linux and Wake-On-Lan Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 23:15:34 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <112220000.1052342133@gate.muc.bieringer.de> References: <20030507090530.91065.qmail@web9703.mail.yahoo.com> <20030507.010630.48509535.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lucas75it@yahoo.it, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030507.010630.48509535.davem@redhat.com> Content-Disposition: inline Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --On Wednesday, May 07, 2003 01:06:30 AM -0700 "David S. Miller" wrote: > From: Gianluca Masone > 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 -- Dr. Peter Bieringer http://www.bieringer.de/pb/ GPG/PGP Key 0x958F422D mailto: pb at bieringer dot de Deep Space 6 Co-Founder and Core Member http://www.deepspace6.net/