Wake On LAN on Fedora 7?

Chris Snook csnook at redhat.com
Fri Jan 18 00:12:12 UTC 2008


Adalbert Prokop wrote:
> Chris Snook wrote on Thursday 17 January 2008:
> 
>> The correct way to do enable WOL is to add the following to
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
>>
>> ETHTOOL_OPTS="wol g"
> 
> It would not work for me, because ETHTOOL_OPTS is only honored in ifup-eth 
> script, not in ifdown-*. Once my NIC is *down* it ignores any packet sent 
> to it. The only way (for me) to have WOL is to create a halt.local script 
> as I described before. It also does not require any initscript 
> modifications which could be lost after an update. :)
> 

D'oh!  I should have noticed earlier that you're using atl1.  Yeah, that's a 
driver bug.  The fix is queued up for the 2.6.25 upstream kernel.

	-- Chris




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