Re: wol support in forcedeth v25
From: Arjen Verweij <hidden>
Date: 2004-09-08 19:36:30
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.quoted
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:quoted
On Monday 19 April 2004 21:11, Arjen Verweij wrote:quoted
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.quoted
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.quoted
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