[patch 5/6] PS3: Sys-manager Wake-on-LAN support

Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Thu Mar 27 12:04:08 EST 2008


Hi,

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:39 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
>> Add Wake-on-LAN support to the PS3 system-manager.  Other OS WOL
>> support was introduced in PS3 system firmware 2.20.
> 
> There is no sleep in the first place tho :-) Or does this power it up /
> boot it using WoL packets ?

Whenever that red light in ON in the front, the system is in 'stand by'
mode.  If you setup WOL before entering standby mode (by using linux
poweroff command, pressing the power button, etc.), you can wake it up:

  On ps3
  # ethtool -s eth0 wol g
  # shutdown -h now

  by remote host (eth1 is connected to the subnet which PS3 resides in)
  # etherwake -i eth1 aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff


I plan to send out a how-to to the ceb-oss-dev ML in the next day or so.

-Geoff




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