Thursday, January 17, 2008, 12:23:08 AM, you wrote: > Andrew Junev wrote on Wednesday 16 January 2008: >> The problem is that the 'wake-on' parameter changes to 'd' (disabled) >> when I shut the machine down, so WOL does not work. > One problem I've seen is shutting down the NIC. When ifdown is executed, > all WOL settings are lost. The solution is pretty easy: bring the card up > just before the machine is powered off. > Copy this snippet to /sbin/halt.local where it will be called > from /etc/init.d/halt on shutdown. > #!/bin/sh > ifconfig eth0 up > ethtool -s eth0 wol g > No changes to any files are required. YMMV. ;) Ok, I triend this now. I created a simple halt.local file. If I run it manually (without shutting the system down), "Wake-on" is set to 'g' - that's correct! But when I shut down the machine it does not power up with a "Magic packet". And when I switch it on manually, I can see the Wake-on is back to 'd' again. :-( I tried to implement a simple log file, so that I could see that halt.local is actually running on shutdown. And now I know it is. But 'Wake-on' still gets Disabled when the machine is powered down. Here's my halt.local file: #!/bin/sh # file: /sbin/halt.local echo "halt.local started" > /tmp/halt.log echo "Running ifconfig eth0 up" >> /tmp/halt.log /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up echo "Done. Now running ethtool -s eth0 wol g" >> /tmp/halt.log /usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol g echo "Done." >> /tmp/halt.log sleep 5 echo "Slept for 5 seconds." >> /tmp/halt.log echo "Script finished" >> /tmp/halt.log Here's what I get in my /tmp/halt.log after a shutdown: # cat /tmp/halt.log halt.local started Running ifconfig eth0 up Done. Now running ethtool -s eth0 wol g Done. Slept for 5 seconds. Script finished What's wrong with my set-up??? -- Best regards, Andrew
