[plug] Wake-on-Lan

[Chris Caston]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 16:28, James Budworth wrote:
> 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.

Just a suggestion:

Did you try it with the broadcast flag? -b

regards,

Chris