2009-05-14 00:19:12

by Luis R. Rodriguez

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Subject: WoW for ath5k

BTW legacy-hal has this stuff :) Just grep for ATH_WOW

Luis


2009-05-14 00:37:45

by Luis R. Rodriguez

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Subject: Re: WoW for ath5k

2009/5/13 G=C3=A1bor Stefanik <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>=
wrote:
>> BTW legacy-hal has this stuff :) Just grep for ATH_WOW
>>
>> =C2=A0Luis
>
> Wow! :-)

Oh and as for testing... we should see the card send null data frames
every now and then. That's when we know it went into its WoW mode.

Luis

2009-05-14 00:47:25

by Maxim Levitsky

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Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] WoW for ath5k

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 02:31 +0200, G=C3=A1bor Stefanik wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>=
wrote:
> > BTW legacy-hal has this stuff :) Just grep for ATH_WOW
> >
> > Luis
>=20
> Wow! :-)
>=20

Isn't Wow support platform dependent (BIOS...)
I think that only S3, and only if bios doesn't turn (put in D3cold) the
wireless device, it could work.

Btw, as I understand, WoW implies that somebody sends a packet with som=
e
predefined pattern, and that wakes the system, right?

Regards,
Maxim Levitsky

2009-05-14 00:54:07

by Luis R. Rodriguez

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Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] WoW for ath5k

2009/5/13 Maxim Levitsky <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 02:31 +0200, G=C3=A1bor Stefanik wrote:
>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]=
> wrote:
>> > BTW legacy-hal has this stuff :) Just grep for ATH_WOW
>> >
>> > =C2=A0Luis
>>
>> Wow! :-)
>>
>
> Isn't Wow support platform dependent (BIOS...)

Yes -- and device specific: not all vendors add the link to enable this=
=2E

> I think that only S3, and only if bios doesn't turn (put in D3cold) t=
he
> 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 s=
ome
> predefined pattern, and that wakes the system, right?

=46or 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

2009-05-14 00:32:15

by Gábor Stefanik

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Subject: Re: WoW for ath5k

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]> w=
rote:
> BTW legacy-hal has this stuff :) Just grep for ATH_WOW
>
> =A0Luis

Wow! :-)

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