[plug] Wake-on-Lan

[James Budworth]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Chris Caston wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 16:12, James Budworth wrote:
> > I recently upgraded my motherboard to an Abit AI7.
> > 
> > This board has intergrated network so I thought I'd finally think about 
> > setting up wake-on-lan.
> > 
> > I gave it a quick test but it doesn't seem to work.
> > 
> > The motherboard chipset is an RTL8139 as far as I can tell from the 
> > documentation (I'll take a closer look at the board tonight). I also made 
> > sure to enable wake-on-lan in the bios, but no joy.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Well are you using etherwake or some other tool?
> 
> You do need to specify the MAC address of the machine you wish to WOL.

I'm using ether-wake with the correct MAC for the machine to be woken up 
(I even double checked the MAC)

The machine to be woken up is running Mandrake 10.

> As a humourous side note I once (a few years ago) managed to warp a pci
> slot slightly on a PIII machine. The machine was running Windows 98 and
> it was plugged into a new XP machine with a cross-over cable. For some
> reason shutting down the 98 machine (with the warped pci slot) would
> wake up the XP machine.
> 
> very strange indeed.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Chris Caston

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James Budworth