Help with wake on LAN

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Mon Jul 2 21:57:59 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 19:43:05 +0200
Adalbert Prokop <adalbert.prokop at gmx.de> wrote:

> In my case (Asus board, integrated nVidia nForce NIC) I had to use some 
> more tricks. Fedora applies ifdown on eth0 when shutting down and it 
> successfully deactivates WOL. I had to activate eth0 just before power 
> goes down.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # file: /sbin/halt.local
> ifconfig eth0 up
> ethtool -s eth0 wol g

I'll have to give this a try on some machines that have never
worked, yet claim to support WOL. The only way I ever got
WOL to work was if I had a linksys NIC with WOL support. For
some reason they always work and nothing else has ever worked.

Maybe linksys ignores the instructions to disable WOL?




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