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segfault

10-13-03 09:28 AM

wake on lan (WOL) under linux

Hello!

I have a shuttle barebone system SN41G2 with the nforce chipset. everything works fine (network, audio, usb, ide, firewire etc.). what i need is wake on lan under linux (which works under windows 2k). i?m using the current driver version, my distribution is suse 8.2.
my first try was this:

Code:

metalu:~ # ethtool -s eth0 wol g

Cannot get current wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported

  not setting wol

so it seems that ethtool cannot handle the device (unsupported?). so: is there a way to use wol under linux with my chipset??

greets,
segfault

cglinux

01-09-04 05:05 AM

I would just like to vote for this feature.

I really, really want WOL on linux.

I used to have it before I updated my mobo to an nForce2 one. I stupidly thought that when the specs said WOL that it would actually work!

I would happily plug another NIC into my machine and use it in place of the NVNet one, but the mobo doesn't have a WOL header, so WOL is supported with the built in NIC ONLY!!!!

How annoyed am I??

I used to dual boot Win XP and after shutting down from it, WOL worked, but now I've ditched Windo'h zzzzz 100%, this doesn't work.

I'm sure it's just a matter of tweaking a couple of registers here and there on the driver initialisation/shutdown code (although I'm far from educated in this matter).

Please, someone take note!!!!

Worf	01-09-04 08:15 AM

I absolutely agree.
Activating wake on lan in the bios doesn't seem to do anything.
While on a old PII board, where i have a wake on lan cable from Mainboard to the network card, this works great.

I could activate wake on lan in Windows and then wake the box.
But somehow the network card forgets the setting after the first usage.

I have a A7N8X, and i tried to wake by using the 3c59x card

TheOneKEA

01-09-04 10:07 AM

Some information

http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html

cglinux

02-17-04 08:21 AM

http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/verwei90/.../solution.html

Quote:

On a positive note, Wake-on-LAN functionality has been enabled on this box, by using pci-config from Donald Becker at scyld. Stay tuned for more information on this matter.

Fingers crossed this will provide some positive light on this matter. Have to wait and see.

NVidia you're really dragging your feet on this on.

Col.

sphere

02-20-04 06:43 PM

Hi,

Please read this bugreport:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636

It contains a dirty solution that works with forcedeth v18 (but not with v.20 or higher). The forcedeth crew is currently too busy with RL stuff, but may code this in their driver yet.

I have emailed NVIDIA about this, two seperate engineers replied a few times, but really didn't have anything useful to add. At first the linux driver didn't contain WOL functionality, later on they reversed that statement.

However, it doesn't work. I still have to try to take a new kernel, rip out forcedeth, and patch it with forcedeth v.18 so I can upgrade my kernel, but still use WOL.

If you are wanting to use WOL, make sure your box is stable. Use a kernel without local-APIC, or turn off the CPU disconnect in the BIOS or just fix the problem with Ross Dickson's patches.

My page about broken stuff:

http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/verwei90/nforce2/index.html

Please let me know how you get along.

gen	05-19-04 10:41 PM