Re: Getting wake-on-lan to work in Etch
* 24-07-2007, Raj Kiran Grandhi
> I am trying to get "wake on lan" to work in Etch. I have a motherboard
> with an onboard NIC which supports wake-on-lan. I have enabled
> wake-on-lan in the bios. When I poweroff the computer during POST, I am
> able to remotely wake it, but if I shut it down from Etch, power to the
> NIC is also being turned off and wake-on-lan does not work. I have
> edited '/etc/init.d/halt' and removed the '-i' option from the 'halt'
> command, but the NIC is still being powered down.
>From the man page it's shutdown interfaces (in networking sense).
> If I boot into single user mode (init 1) and call poweroff from there,
> the NIC is kept alive after the computer is powered down. Another thing
> I have noticed is that when I issue the 'poweroff' from runlevel 2, the
> console displays the message "acpi_poweroff called" just before
> powerdown and the NIC is also powered off. This message does not appear
> when issuing poweroff from runlevel 1.
So, ACPI/BIOS whatever thinks that it knows better than somebody else.
OTHO, maybe it's another set of bugs in that brain damaged interface,
> How can I configure the system to keep the NIC alive after shutting down
> from runlevel 2?
Try to get rid of acpi: any acpi-related kernel modules
(/lib/linux/kernel/drivers/acpi/*) or try kernel parameters (e.g. acpi=off).
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