2009/5/13 Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 02:31 +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote: >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > BTW legacy-hal has this stuff :) Just grep for ATH_WOW >> > >> > Luis >> >> Wow! :-) >> > > Isn't Wow support platform dependent (BIOS...) Yes -- and device specific: not all vendors add the link to enable this. > I think that only S3, and only if bios doesn't turn (put in D3cold) the > wireless device, it could work. In addition to that you also need a link from the wireless device to the motherboard to turn it on. Not sure of the details here, still gathering that but a good public read is on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN > Btw, as I understand, WoW implies that somebody sends a packet with some > predefined pattern, and that wakes the system, right? For wireless and at least for Atheros we borrow WOL's magic packet, Link change, beacon miss and user pattern -- which could be something like an ARP request so that if someone pings it it'll come up for example. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
