I encountered the same problem when I installed Ubuntu 10.x.  Earlier
versions of Ubuntu worked as expected on the same system so I'm confident
that it's a problem with the Lucid kernel.

In the end, I installed Linux Mint 9 (Isadora) to get WOL to work.


On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:11 AM, linuxuser <[email protected]> wrote:

> sure have; BIOS is set to WOL Enabled and seems to allow this to work
> when I shutdown Windows,
>
> On Feb 11, 10:09 pm, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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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