My understanding is that the WOL ability is in the BIOS (i.e. nothing at all
to do with the OS - kind of like a power switch).  Have you looked at the
BIOS settings?

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:14 PM, linuxuser <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have searched high and low for a solution waking my system, but no
> luck.  I have a Dell D600 laptop with Ubuntu 10.10 and windows XP and
> I can only get WOL to work when XP was the last OS running.  If I boot
> up Ubuntu and shut it down, wake on lan fails on the next attempt.
> I have added the /etc/init.d/wakeonlan script:
> #!/bin/bash
> ethtool -s eth0 wol g
> exit
>
> I can run this script without error and added it to rc3.d and rc5.d,
> both Start and Kill pointers
>
> I disabled the WLAN card and use only the wired card.  It's a
> Broadcom:
>
> root@D600:~# lspci -nn|grep -i net
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
> BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:165d] (rev 01)
> 02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN
> 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter [8086:1043] (rev 04)
>
> It appears to support WOL:
> Supports Wake-on: g
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
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