Re: wake-on-lan

[Roel Schroeven <rschroev_nospam_ml@fastmail.fm>]

Jeronimo Pellegrini schreef:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:56:24PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> > Now I did investigate, and this is what I found out: given that the BIOS 
> > is configured correctly, I can remotely wake the box if I shut it down 
> > before it boots Linux (it works if I shut it down while the Grub menu is 
> > visible), but it doesn't work if I shut it down when Linux is running. I 
> > tried shutting it down via poweroff, shutdown -h now and pushing the 
> > power button, but all with the same effect: no response to wake-up packets.
> I had a similar problem... Before shutting down, I need to run this
> command:
>
> # ethtool -s eth0 wol g
>
> Because after a reboot WOL is disabled.
> I included that line in my boot scripts.

From the man page, it indeed looks like that should help. Unfortunately 
it doesn't seem to work. I'll investigate further tomorrow.

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on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven