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? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
