Re: wol support in forcedeth v25

[Arjen Verweij <a.verweij@student.tudelft.nl>]

Ahum. I should have adapted the subject, and I did mean to write "long 
shot".

NOFI at all, I was just typing too fast ;)

Regards,

Arjen


Andrew de Quincey wrote:

>On Tuesday 20 April 2004 12:13, Arjen Verweij wrote:
>
>I found how I could get it going again, but its not the right way of doing 
>it.. In nv_close(), if you comment out the lines "nv_stop_rx(dev);" and "if 
>(np->wolenabled) nv_start_rx(dev);", WOL works. 
>
>However this isn't the right way to do it, which is why I haven't supplied a 
>patch. What its supposed to do it stop receiving, clear any buffers, then 
>restart receiving again. But this seems to break WOL for some reason. There 
>must be some extra operation required for it all to work properly... I'll 
>keep looking.
>
>  
>
>>OK, let me know if you need a guinea pig to test any patches you might
>>have.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Arjen
>>
>>On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>On Monday 19 April 2004 21:11, Arjen Verweij wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>Is the wol support in forcedeth v25 complete yet? I was trying it with
>>>>the 2.6.5 kernel it came with, tried the new forcedeth driver with a
>>>>2.6.3 kernel (because firewire seems broken in 2.6.5) however, my box
>>>>will not wake up as of yet.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>You're right! It _was_ working with patch-forced-0.25, but it ain't in
>>>2.6.5. I'll see if I can spot the problem.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>According to the source there is a FIXME with a comment about powering
>>>>down the NIC. Does this mean that support for wol is incomplete for
>>>>now? Mind you, I am just curious, this is in no way meant as criticism.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>That would only be for when WOL is NOT used; I think it has to leave the
>>>NIC powered up for WOL to work... and as you say it ain't implemented
>>>yet.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>On another note, Carl-Daniel mentioned that DEV_NEED_TIMERIRQ might be
>>>>removed from future releases. Is this still the case? Feedback would be
>>>>much appreciated, so I can keep my humble audience up to date on what's
>>>>going on at the wol front.
>>>>
>>>>Thank you guys for your excellent work,
>>>>
>>>>Arjen
>>>>http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/verwei90/nforce2/index.html
>>>>        
>>>>