Thanks Conrad.  That was encouraging until I read on the Linux Mint
site that Mint 9 is based on Ubuntu 10.4.  Did mint keep the HAL
daemon that Roy said might be the issue?


On Feb 12, 7:17 am, Conrad Lawes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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