On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:34:57 PST, Michael Chan said: > Ideally, the BIOS should modify the NVRAM's setting when it is changed. > We will talk to Dell to get their opinion on this as this is very > confusing to the user.
That would certainly explain what I'm seeing, and I can certainly wait if the answer is indeed "Buggy BIOS, fixed in D820 A08 or A09 or whenever". (If Dell cares, I'm at BIOS A07 already). In the meantime, I just stuck an 'ethtool -s eth0 wol d' in /etc/rc.local until a proper fix shows up.
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