can not wake on lan after halt -p (or shutdown -p now) on releng_7 and releng_7_0

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:41:59AM +0800, David Adam wrote:
 > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Georgi Iovchev wrote:
 > > I have a shutdown problem. I have a machine with gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
 > > motherboard. Integrated network card is Realtek 8111B.
 > > I can not wake the computer after I shutdown it from FreeBSD.
 > > It is a dualboot system - windows xp and freebsd. If I shutdown the
 > > computer from windows - later I can wake it up with magic packet. Even
 > > if i shutdown the machine on the boot menu with the power button - than
 > > later I can wake on lan. The only situation where I CANNOT wake it is
 > > when I shutdown the machine from freebsd (halt -p).
 > > 
 > > First I tested with 7.0-RELEASE-p5 amd64 (RELENG_7_0) and than I
 > > upgraded to 7.1 PRERELASE amd64 (RELENG_7). I also tested with two
 > > network cards - the integrated one Realtek 8111B and another one Intel
 > > PRO1000PT PCI-E with WOL enabled.
 > > 
 > > With both nics and both freebsd versions the situation is the same -
 > > after shutdown from bsd the computer is not able to wake on lan. The
 > > indication on the switch port says that after shut down there is
 > > active link.
 > 
 > I have a similar problem with an Intel SR1200 Pentium 3-class system, 
 > using fxp(4) cards, although I haven't yet tried the `halt -p` command.
 > 

fxp(4) should be taught to support WOL. Also note, not all fxp(4)
hardwares support WOL.

 > I was discussing WoL with a colleague recently and he suggested that on 
 > some Linux systems he needed to use `ethtool -s eth0 wol g` on every boot 
 > to maintain the WoL status.
 > 

In FreeBSD this is controlled by ifconfig(8) and WOL implementation
is up to driver writer. Some controllers require special
configuration to make WOL work but I think re(4) should have no such
issue as one of hardest part of WOL is handled by firmware on RealTek
controllers(You don't need to reestablish a 10/100Mbps link).

 > >From the ethtool(1) manpage:
 > 
 >        wol p|u|m|b|a|g|s|d...
 >               Set Wake-on-LAN options.  Not all devices  support  this.   
 >               g  Wake on MagicPacket(tm)
 > 
 > >From my reading, this might be necessary if the driver clears the flag 
 > during initialisation of the card.
 > 
 > kern/83807 was filed to fix this issue for sis(4), but was never 
 > committed. However, work is apparently being done in 8-CURRENT to support 
 > exposing the WoL settings to ifconfig: see 
 > http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan . Until that work lands in a release, I 
 > think we're out of luck.
 > 

If I had sis(4) hardware I would have written WOL support code.
The patch in the PR needs minor modifications but it requires real
hardware to test the WOL functionality. Maybe PR submitter can do
that.

 > (Another administrator has also suggested that, on Linux at least, using 
 > the 'ifdown' command will destroy WoL status, but I don't think that's an 
 > issue here.)
 > 
 > Hope that helps. I'm sure any contributions to the effort to add driver 
 > support will be appreciated.
 > 
 > David Adam
 > zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon