Re: forcedeth - WOL [SOLVED]

[Martin Filip <bugtraq@smoula.net>]

Hi,

Björn Steinbrink píše v St 27. 09. 2006 v 20:38 +0200:

> Did you check that WOL was enabled? I need to re-activate it after each
> boot (I guess that's normal, not sure though).
> The output of "ethtool eth0" should show:
> 
>         Supports Wake-on: g
>         Wake-on: g
> 
Yes, of course :)

> Also, I remember a bugzilla entry in which it was said that the MAC was
> somehow reversed by the driver. I that is still the case (I can't find
> the bugzilla entry right now), you might just reverse the MAC address in
> your WOL packet to workaround the bug.

Hey! this is really crazy :) but it works! To bo honest - I really do
not know what crazy bug could cause problems like this. I thought it's
NIC thing to manage all the work about WOL. I thought OS only sets NIC
into "WOL mode".

But seeing this - one packet for windows and one magic packet for linux
driver - I really do not get it.

-- 
Martin Filip
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