Re: [Etherboot-developers] Nvidia MCP79 Support

[Bill S. <wst...@hg...>]

I am using my WOL code from the contrib directory of etherboot.  The WOL 
never gets sent, it appears to be a timing issue or something.

I did some testing from the gpxe command line, I am able to aquire an IP via 
dhcp, but then there is error recovery in those sort of exchanges that will 
compensate from lost packets.  I also added a command to the gpxe command 
line to send the wol packet manually, it does seem to get sent in that case. 
That is why I think it might be a timing issue or something.  Perhaps 
related to sending the packet to soon after initialization or something.

In the end my solution was to send the WOL packet 5 times, now it does seem 
to get sent always.

All I am using gpxe for is waking a backend server.  I run XBMC for my media 
system, all the media is on a backend server in the basement.  I use gpxe to 
start the backend early in the boot process of the frontend before XBMC has 
started.

----- Original Message ----- 
> Good day Bill,
>
> You asked about adding support for an NVIDIA NIC to forcedeth.c in order
> to send a WakeOnLAN packet.  What makes you think it's not working
> properly (error messages?) and how were you sending the WakeOnLAN
> packet?
>
> - Shao Miller