Re: Wake up on LAN

ethtool -s eth0 wol umbg

According to ethtool, my NIC supports wake up on physical activity (p)
multicast messages (m) broadcast messages (b) and on MagicPacket (g).

Finally, I enabled just about anything I could find in the BIOS
configuration for my motherboard (Microstar MS-6712 (KT4V)) to do with
wake-up events.

It still does not work. What else can I try? Is this supposed to
wake up a computer that has been completely turned off (but left plugged
in,) or can it happen only from a suspend state of some sort?

I'd be interested to know what you find out about that.
My attempts (with a different chipset) failed, but along the way I found out
that some potential problems are that if you call "ifconfig <IF> down"
before shutting down the machine, then the WOL may not work (no matter how
much ethtool magic you try).
And of course, most scripts will do "ifdown" on all interfaces while
shutting down (and maybe also while preparing for hibernation).


Stefan
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