Wake On LAN

[bajo]

How can I use the WOL?
In the BIOS the WOL is enabled. In Windows it worked with the NIC.
Now in Linux fc5 I want to use it but it does not work.
If I use ethtool -s eth0 wol g it is oke if I look with ethtool eth0.
But after a reboot it is set back to disabbled.
I am wandering what I have to do to get it working.
Where do I have to look ?

[maestronn]

Apparantly you need to some how prevent fedora from shutting down the network devices during the shutdown process. I've been trying to get WOL working on my FC box for a few days now too. I found this http://gentoo-wiki.com/Wake_on_lan that give a general idea of what's needed but I haven't figured out how to do this in Fedora.
Does anyone know what scripts to edit or where to look to prevent fedora shutting down the network devices?

[toolazy2p]

Originally Posted by bajo

How can I use the WOL?
In the BIOS the WOL is enabled. In Windows it worked with the NIC.
Now in Linux fc5 I want to use it but it does not work.
If I use ethtool -s eth0 wol g it is oke if I look with ethtool eth0.
But after a reboot it is set back to disabbled.
I am wandering what I have to do to get it working.
Where do I have to look ?

WOL works for me, but after reboot wake-on gets set back to disabled as well. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[toolazy2p]

Originally Posted by toolazy2p

WOL works for me, but after reboot wake-on gets set back to disabled as well. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I managed to find a solution. I added a script to the boot sequence to re-enable wol.

su -

gedit /etc/rc.d/rc.local

In rc.local, I added the line /user/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol g. Saved, rebooted. Ran ethtool eth0 as root and tada!...happy me.

[marisdembovskis]

I did:
su -
gedit /etc/rc.d/rc.local
inserted line:
/usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol g.
saved.


Now i switch off the pc.
And from another pc tried to wake the first pc up with command
ssh 192.168.....
and also
ping 192.168.....

But nothing happens, pc does not wake up.
However if I unplug the RJ 45 cable, pc starts. ???

Any ideas, what is wrong?
Thanks

[Seve]

Hello:
Dunno if this will help you or not, however, have you tried # ether-wake 192.168........
Seve

[pigpen]

The most used commands to wake a PC via a magic packet are:
1. ethtool (from the ethtool package) and
2. ether-wake (from the net-tools package).
Neither ssh nor ping will work.

In order to put the card into WOL mode I just had to add "wol_enable=1" to the line in /etc/modprobe.conf in which the options for the network card are set.

[marisdembovskis]

1. I have ethtool installed
2. added /usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol g
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
3. added wol_enable=1
in /etc/modprobe.conf

Tried to start remote pc with addres 192.168... and Mac 00:14:85:34......
with command:
ether-wake 00:14:85:34......
answer: SIOCGIFHWADDR on eth0 failed: No such device

and command:
ether-wake 192.168.1.201
answer:
ether-wake: The Magic Packet host address must be specified as
- a station address, 00:11:22:33:44:55, or
- a hostname with a known 'ethers' entry.

???
Thanks for help guys!

[Seve]

Hello:
Hello:
Check your /etc/ethers file and make sure that the target mac address is present. Then, unless the nic card in the target box is mis-configured, ether-wake should work.
hth
Seve

[marisdembovskis]

Uups, I don't have /etc/ethers file at all!
I have:
eclipse.conf environment exports
enscript.cfg esd.conf exports.bak

what can I do?