I happened to notice that a system with an NVidia NIC using the forcedeth driver won't wake-on-LAN if the interface was in promiscuous mode when you power off. By experiment, it looks like the hardware needs to have NvRegPacketFilterFlags set to NVREG_PFF_ALWAYS|NVREG_PFF_MYADDR (i.e., receive unicast packets to my address) in order for WoL to work. At any rate, the attached patch fixes the problem for me.
-- Tim Mann work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vmware.com http://tim-mann.org
--- forcedeth-git-netdev.c 2007-06-01 16:43:19.971507000 -0700 +++ forcedeth-git-netdev-fixed.c 2007-06-01 16:46:53.389713000 -0700 @@ -4830,8 +4830,10 @@ drain_ring(dev); - if (np->wolenabled) + if (np->wolenabled) { + writel(NVREG_PFF_ALWAYS|NVREG_PFF_MYADDR, base + NvRegPacketFilterFlags); nv_start_rx(dev); + } /* FIXME: power down nic */