Re: 2.6.23-mm1 tg3 wake-on-lan oddity...

From: Michael Chan
Date: Tue Nov 27 2007 - 11:05:00 EST


Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> (a) the Dell factory default is WOL disabled and (b)
> if it wasn't
> the default, I'd have *set* it to disabled, and (c) I even
> went back and
> rebooted and checked the BIOS setting - disabled. Nonetheless:
>
> # ethtool eth0 | grep Wake
> Supports Wake-on: g
> Wake-on: g
>
> Is this expected behavior?
>

The new tg3 is supposed to follow the WoL setting in the
NVRAM, so this is not expected. We'll have to look into
this.

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