Wake On LAN on Fedora 7?

Chris Snook csnook at redhat.com
Fri Jan 18 19:18:50 UTC 2008


Andrew Junev wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Ummm... And what about my case? Do you think it's also a driver bug?
> 
> 

Sorry, I got confused.  *Your* case is a bug in the atl1 driver that will be 
fixed in the 2.6.25 kernel.  I don't know what's going on for Adalbert Prokop, 
unless he's also using atl1.

	-- Chris




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