2009/4/5 Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Thanks for the response. > > Firstly, I have "Wake on LAN" enabled in the BIOS. > > Secondly, rather to my surprise the ethernet light goes off > when I "Hibernate" (I should confess at this point > that I am running Centos-5.3 on this machine, > but thought that I was more likely to get a helpful response > on the Fedora list!) > but stays on when I shutdown. > > In neither case does ping or (attempted) ssh have any effect. > How exactly is one meant to "wake from LAN". One uses Magic Packets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN To do this, first install a wol client on another machine to broadcast the wakeup: # yum -y install wol Then read about the options: http://linux.die.net/man/1/wol Then one wakes the target machine... -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
