On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Ian Dudley-Bestow wrote:
> Dear Sluggers
>
> What I am about to describe is completely stupid and must be wrong.
>
> I am attempting to get wake-on-LAN to work. I can get machine A to wake up
> machine B. But, only if previously B was shutdown while A remains booted.
> So the sequence goes like this:
> 1 Boot A and B;
> 2 Shutdown B, but keep A booted;
> 3 A can then send a magic packet to successfully wake up B.
>
> A is an X terminal and B the X server. This is stupid. This means that the
> X
> terminal has to remain on in order to wake up the X server. This has to be
> wrong. What I want is to be able to boot A (the X terminal) and that in the
> course of the boot it sends a magic packet to B to wake it up. Please,
> someone, tell that I am doing something daft, or that it was George Bush who
> designed WOL.
>
> Regards
>
> Ian Dudley-Bestow
>
> PS
> All machines are running Linux 2.4.22, Slackware 9.1.
> A can be a variety of machines with a variety of ISA or PCI LAN cards. B is
> an Acer Power 6100 with APM operating as a module. B has an Intel Ethernet
> Pro 100 82557 LAN card. I've been to the Intel web site to get IBAUTIL.EXE
> and see if there is some freakout setting that I have to set on the card. No
> success.
What you want to do doesen't sound silly. I don't get why A needs to
remain on either. Only thing I can think of is the physical link needs to
remain active and that may be solved by inserting a hub or switch if you're
presently using just a crossover cable. IE so the server card doesen't
need to do the link speed negotiation phase. Sounds like you've exhausted
the BIOS & firmware possibilities.
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