Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.170]:64622 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753885AbZENAyH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 20:54:07 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 26so623438wfd.4 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 17:54:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1242262041.3241.30.camel@maxim-laptop> References: <43e72e890905131718k739eef2eu35f76d4bf5b03dae@mail.gmail.com> <69e28c910905131731t5f708339y3fc87b9035591115@mail.gmail.com> <1242262041.3241.30.camel@maxim-laptop> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 17:53:46 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890905131753v540411b6n32c0dd68a24453f3@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] WoW for ath5k To: Maxim Levitsky Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Stefanik?= , "ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org" , linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2009/5/13 Maxim Levitsky : > 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 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html