Marvell 88E8053 wake on lan with 2.6.16 kernel and sky2

arizonagroovejet · 02-15-2009, 08:31 AM

I've got a bunch of machines that use an the Marvell 88E8053 chipset for their on board network card. The machines are running SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 with the 2.6.16 kernel and using the sky2 driver for the network card. According to the motherbord manual wake on lan is supposed, the relevant option is enabled in the BIOS but the machines do not wake when the magic packet is sent. The network card appears to be turned off as there is no led activity.
Anyone know if it's possible to get wake on lan working on with this set up? There's no indication in the output of ethtool that wake on lan is supported.

Code:

foo:~ # ethtool eth0                                                   
Settings for eth0:                                                              
        Supported ports: [ TP ]                                                 
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full                       
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full                     
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full                   
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes                                          
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full                       
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full                     
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full                   
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes                                        
        Speed: 100Mb/s                                                          
        Duplex: Full                                                            
        Port: Twisted Pair                                                      
        PHYAD: 0                                                                
        Transceiver: internal                                                   
        Auto-negotiation: on                                                    
        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)                                 
        Link detected: yes                                                      
                                                        
foo:~ # ethtool -s eth0 wol g                                          
Cannot get current wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported                
  not setting wol

May or may not be worth noting that some identical spec machines running Windows XP also fail to wake on lan.

I'm very new to this wake on lan stuff, but I've got some other machines with some other network card in them also running SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 and wake on lan works fine with those. So I know at least that my method for sending magic packets is valid.

vargstein · 05-26-2009, 02:11 PM

i have the same problem, but my ethtool eth0 is showing that it is supporting "pg" thats phy-activity and magic packet. and when im shutting it down when i have enabled g (or both pg), the led on my switch is on after the power is off, otherwise if its "d". the led is off when it's been powered off.

im dual booting with winxp, and when i shut down from xp wol works fine. so i think my problem is a bug in the sky2 driver. but have you tried using a livecd with another distro and the try using ethtool?

and by the way, if anyone is using the sky2 network driver AND have wakeonlan working, please let me (maybe us) know.

EDIT: when i have powered off from linux, and have enabled wakeonlan with ethtool and the led is on, i can se that the led (all leds) are flickering while i send the magic packet. The led on the network card is still flickering when im sending the packet, but it seems that its just ignoring it. if you get it working with sky2, please let me know what you did.