Comments on: WOL Wakeonlan Guide: Turn On Servers Remotely Without Physical Access

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:22:25 +0000

I just created 2 scripts, one for suspend and one for shutdown that runs

“ethtool -s eth0 wol g”

before issuing the shutdown or suspend command.

Matt

By: nardi

nardi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:13:54 +0000

Depends on distro.
According to this thread (it’s czech, but you can surely recognize the commands and filenames): http://www.abclinuxu.cz/poradna/linux/show/123114

In Debian I added this line to my /etc/network/interfaces:
post-up /usr/sbin/ethtool -s $IFACE wol g
And edited /etc/init.d/halt script not to turn off interfaces.

In my Gentoo I would probably do quite a similar thing in /etc/init.d/net.eth0 in postup() function.

But I still do sth wrong and computer still doesn’t react when I run wol or wakeonline (tried both for sure) even when i’m directly connected via ethernet cable. =( Probably the network card is not listenning at all. I would be thankfull for any hints.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:04:03 +0000

I set Wake-on to ‘g’ using ethtool, and I’m able to shutdown and subsequently wake the machine using wakeonlan, but then the Wake-on flag is reset to ‘d’. I have to reset the flag to ‘g’ manually every time I reboot the machine.

Any ideas on how to get it to retain the ‘g’ setting?

Thanks,
Matt