NamTaf / if_bge_wol

Patch to enable Wake on LAN for the if_bge driver on FreeBSD 11.1

if_bge_wol

Patch to enable Wake on LAN for the if_bge driver on FreeBSD 11.1. Tested on HP Proliant Microserver N36L on 11.1-RELEASE-p9, should work on the N40L and N54L.

Instructions

• cd /usr/src/sys/dev/bge/
• patch if_bge.c < if_bge.c.patch
• cd /usr/src/sys/modules/bge/
• make
• make install
• cp ./if_bge.ko /boot/kernel/
• clean
• Add if_bge_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf

To test:

• shutdown -r now
• ifconfig bge0 should show WOL_MAGIC under OPTIONS

History

• Update of my previous PR for 10.1-RELEASE here.

Credits

• Thanks to Nicola T (w4w) for the BitBucket patch & explanation here.
• Thanks to zoon01 & daoyama for the original NAS4Free 9.1 patch here.