wake-on-lan with Abit KV-80
Hello, all. I've been having trouble getting wake-on-lan (WOL) working with
some Abit KV-80 cluster nodes and was wondering if someone on one of these lists
had any thoughts. (Maybe useful: sarge 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8).
So far, I have only been able to get WOL working (with standard 'magic packets')
from a fully powered off state, ie. the power to the board had been killed by
turning off the power supply. I have NOT been able to get it to work after
powering down the board from a "poweroff" or "shutdown" signal. I've also tried
various combinations of the -H/-P/-h options with "shutdown".
Does anyone have any idea why this might be the case? I have tried every
possible permutation of BIOS and hardware settings to no avail. If WOL works
from a completely powered off state, I can only assume that there is something
peculiar about how "poweroff" is "powering down" the machine, ie. it's not fully
powering down the machine in a way that mimics what happens when the power
supply is cut. I guess this isn't a complete surprise. Can someone fill me in
on what exactly is the state that the machine ends up in after a "poweroff", and
why WOL might not work in that state? Is there a way to coax the machine into a
powered off state where it WOULD be receptive to a WOL? Does this have
something to do with ACPI? I'm not running acpid. The last thing the console
spits out after a poweroff command is "acpi_power_off called", but I'm not
certain how to interpret that.
As you can imagine, Abit has not been of any help yet. Any help at all would be
much appreciated.
jamie.
Reply to: