sorry this is not an answer, but. wake on lan, is that so i can start the computer from the lan? it would be cool
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:08, Elton Algera wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I posted a message some months ago about a problem with wake on lan, but > noone knew the solution back then. So here's another shot. > > I have a asus a7n8x motherboard, with integrated ethernet (nvidia > chipset...). > > For Wake on Lan to work, it is required that the network interface is in > the proper power condition before the computer is turned off. > > I use the pci-config tool from scyld.com. This takes care of the right > powercondition. > > Ok, here follow some diagnostics: > > * If the computer shuts down from windows, Wake on Lan works :-| > * If the computer is shut down from Linux with the following commands: > > pci-config -#12 -S (for bringing the card in sleep condition) > sleep 10 > /sbin/halt -dfi > > the machine shuts down and powers up properly with WOL. Now this is not > desirable, because halt -dfi shuts down the machine immediately, without > killing jobs, or umounting disks :-( > > * The goal is obviously to run pci-config just before /sbin/shutdown calls > halt. (Is done in the shutdown scripts /etc/init.d/halt.sh and > /etc/init.d/shutdown.sh) > > If I put the above commands in /etc/init.d/shutdown.sh, the machine shuts > down but won't wake up again. > > > So, why is this sequence of commands working from the prompt (runlevel 3), > but not from the shutdown scripts??? > > Has anyone any clue? > > Thanks, > > Elton > > > > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
