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Re: [LUG] wol

 

In answer to my own question I need to do
ethtool -s eth1 wol p
Now all I need to do is find a network card that will support it!

Mark

On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 16:57 +0000, Mark Hajdukiewicz wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have set up wake on lan on my Linux (ubuntu) machine.
> 
> I would like a windows XP computer on my home network to wake the Linux
> machine when it needs to access the samba network drive.
> 
> I have created a script for the windows machine which will send the
> magic packet and then open the windows file browser, which works well.
> The problem is that if the Linux machine is suspended when this window
> is open it all goes wrong.
> 
> What I want to do is somehow automagically send the magic packet each
> time the windows machine does a network drive access, so if it is
> suspended during use it will be woken up prior to the attempt to access
> the drive.
> 
> Has anyone managed to do this?
> Can the windows network card be forced to prepend a magic packet?
> Can the router be forced to prepend a magic packet?
> Can the Linux network card be forced to wake on all traffic?
> 
> Thanks
> Mark
> 
> 
> 


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