[SOLVED] HP NC112T WOL (em0)

[ChriZathens]

Hello folks!
I have a problem...
Wanted to set jumbo frames in my NAS, but seems that nfe0 does not support jumbo frames (at least in FreeBSD)
I had an HP NC112T PCI Express Gigabit Server Adapter somewhere and yesterday found some time to plug it in my NAS..
The thing is that no WOL options appear in Network|Lan Management.(And no WOL is a dealbraker in my case)
dmesg output:

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$ dmesg |grep em0
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.3.2> port 0xec00-0xec1f mem 0xdffe0000-0xdfffffff,0xdff00000-0xdff7ffff,0xdffdc000-0xdffdffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
em0: Using MSIX interrupts with 3 vectors
em0: Ethernet address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

Output of ifconfig is as follows:

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$ ifconfig -m em0
em0: flags=8c02<BROADCAST,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=4019b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO>
	capabilities=5019b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO>
	ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
	media: Ethernet autoselect
	status: no carrier
	supported media:
		media autoselect
		media 1000baseT
		media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
		media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
		media 100baseTX
		media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
		media 10baseT/UTP

No WOL support is mentioned...
However the card itself does have WOL support. Below are the NIC's specs:

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	NC112T
Data Path					Single lane (x1)
I/O Expansion Slot Type		PCI Express ver 1.1
Controller					Intel 82574L
Jumbo Frames				Yes (9K frame size)
Server Slot Support			Includes brackets for both half height and full height slots
TCP Checksum Offload		Yes, IPv6 based
Large Send Offload (LSO)		Yes
Onboard Memory			32KB
PXE Support				Yes
Cold Boot Wake-on-LAN (WOL)	Yes
Number of ports				1
Connectors				RJ-45
Transfer Rate				10/100/ 1000
Cabling					Category 5, 5E, and 6 or better
IEEE Support				802.3, 802.3u, 802.3x, 802.3ab, 802.3ad, 802.1p, 802.1Q

The controller is Intel 82574L....
I found somewhere to put dev.em.0.wake in sysctl, however sysctl -a shows no such parameter (and if I try to enter it in System|Advanced|sysctl.conf|Edit I get an error "The MIB 'dev.em.0.wake' doesn't exist in sysctl."
Tried writing wol_magic in advanced options of ifconfig, but after reboot still nothing...
I even found siftu's blog post about how to enable wol in an intel card (http://n4f.siftusystems.com/index.php/2 ... /comments/), however I don't know if it applies in my case
Anyone has any ideas, please?
Since I use 9.1.0.1 - Sandstorm (revision 847), is anyone in here which is using an Intel card (em0 interface) with the newest version of Nas4free who can post the output of

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ifconfig -m em0

Dear Developers, any ideas from you?
Thanks!!!!

[b0ssman]

the principle of siftus entry applies.

if the described way does not work you will need to find a similar way for your card.

[ChriZathens]

Well, I intended to try it, anyways...
But before, I thought that someone with an Intel NIC could post me an ifconfig -m
I am at work right now and tried latest version of n4f on an old Dell GX270 which uses an Intel NIC and WOL was there in ifconfig...
Not 100% sure, though, since it is a legacy Intel gigabit nic
I believe that the easiest thing to do is to try latest version with my NAS and then try siftu's way...

[ChriZathens]

Another user who has also an Intel NIC kindly posted his dmesg output..: viewtopic.php?f=58&t=8255&p=49708#p49706
He is using latest n4f and his driver is 7.3.8, while mine is 7.3.2 (n4f 9.1.0.1 )
So I am almost certain that updating to latest will solve my issue. ..
Will update the topic when I do so...

[ChriZathens]

OK, update...
Using the latest (9.3.0.2.1310 as of this post) did not solve the issue.. Even using the beta build (FreeBSD 10) did not solve the problem
The solution that did work was siftu's solution.... It seemed after all that wol was disabled in Firmware
So, after using Intel's bootutil and set WOL to enabled, n4f was able to use wol_magicand NAS could be remotely waken with success
I took the opportunity to upgrade my OS to 9.3.0.2.1310, too..
Mission completed succesfully...

[raulfg3]

Good to know.

very usefull post for other users with same NIC and problem.