How to add wake on lan support for your card

[Sam Leffler]

Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:13:28PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>   
>>> Well, I hope I haven't missed anything important, but I guess
>>> that's about it.
>>>       
>> Wow ! seems like you spent a fair time assembling that lot,
>>     
>
> About 2 hours.
>
>   
>> & it'd sure be a shame if it just got dusty in mail archives,
>> (OK apart from current readers who might latch it).
>>     
>
> Thanks.
>
>   
>> Maybe you could send it to doc at freebsd.org list or via send-pr &
>> suggest it be swallowed as an Annex to main docs ? Seems useful.
>>     
>
> I guess the wiki would be more appropriate than the main docs.
>
> Maybe we should add a wiki page about wake on lan?
> Reading http://wiki.freebsd.org/AboutWiki it seems that if
> I created an account there and someone added me to the
> ContributorsGroup for a new WakeOnLan page I would be good to go.
>
> Another place I could add it to is the wake on lan PR, which is at
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/83807
>
> Anyway, it's not lost in any case, because it's in the archives,
> and at least I know about it and can always link people there if
> they want to read it (or if they ask me to add support for
> their card, heheh).
>   

I really want to see the WOL support get into the tree.  I looked at it 
before and had some issues with ifconfig integration which is mostly why 
it's not already there.  We're occupied with releases right now so I 
think the right time to get in the tree is after 7.0 goes out.

    Sam