Hi Jukka,

> I use [1]wol (pkgsrc/net/wol) on NetBSD machines to
> wake up other

I've tried but wol and wakeup from pkgsrc w/o success
:-(

> machines which then boot NetBSD, in case that's what
> you're asking...

Are they recent machines ?

[...]

> > Old HP documentation about this machine said WoL
> works
> > only when the machine running windows95 or NT, but
> not
> > OS/2 or other OSes. I read also on some forums
> that
> > the OS needs to support some specials ACPI
> features
> > when shuting down the machine.
> 
> Hmm, the machine you want to wake up is not running
> any operating
> system, so why should it matter which system will be
> booted?

It seems it's not a problem of system to be booted but
a question of OS that has stopped the server.
Some discussion about it :
http://streetsplash.com/images/teasers/ss004alisa_example_ss4aimg_8978.jpg

It seems its concerning only old machines.

Bye

Laurent


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