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

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Nov 27 2007 - 14:51:26 EST


On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:04:28 PST, Michael Chan said:
> 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.

Any info that would help? printk's to stick in tg3.c? Dumping the
relevant bytes of NVRAM? etc?

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