Help with wake on LAN

[Jonathan Berry]

On 7/1/07, Anduin Withers <awithers at anduin.com> wrote:
> > Here is the issue.  If I turn on my computer and turn it off before it
> > leaves the BIOS screen (that is, before booting Fedora and shutting
> > down), I can successfully turn on the computer over wake on LAN.
> > However, if I have just shut down from Fedora, wake on LAN does not
> > work.
>
> I add "/sbin/ethtool -s [interface] wol g" to rc.local.

Thanks.  I tried just running this command as root before shutting
down and it seemed to do the trick.  Well, at least it seemed to.  The
first time I tried it, I didn't shut down properly (different issue)
and it did not work.  After running it and shutting down properly, it
did work.

Jonathan