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

2007-11-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:34:57 PST, Michael Chan said: > Ideally, the BIOS should modify the NVRAM's setting when it is changed. > We will talk to Dell to get their opinion on this as this is very > confusing to the user. That would certainly explain what I'm seeing, and I can certainly wait if the

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

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Chan
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 01:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Issue: > > I (for unrelated reasons) run powertop, and it suggests I conserve power > by doing 'ethtool -s eth0 wol d'. I look at it, and think that it's daft, > because (a) the Dell factory default is WOL disabled and (b) if it wa

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

2007-11-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:04:28 PST, Michael Chan said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Nonethe

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

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: