mudlark;211416 Wrote: 
> I have had real problems understanding the WOL function with my ASUS
> P5B-VM motherboard. I enabled it in bios, but it wouldn't work. I tried
> a PCI intel card and that worked. I tried a PCI-E device and no joy.
> 

I'm also still confused about this WOL-business. I run ubuntu on an
ASUS M2NPV-VM. 

It seems that I can only get it back on if I use the -h flag to the
shutdown command (-h letting the motherboard decide between Halt or
poweroff after shutdown).   WHY??

What I did:

First I switched the sleep mode to S3 (that's
sleep-but-hold-content-in-RAM). In order to make hibernate to work, you
need at least the same swap area as RAM memory (since Linux saves the
RAM contents to Swap) and I have 2GB RAM but only 1 GB SWAP. Also
enable WakeOnLan in BIOS.

To enable WOL I run, as you did:

# sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol g

But to make it turn on at reboot I added a line to
/etc/network/interfaces

iface eth0 inet dhcp
up ethtool -s eth0 wol g

I also made sure that the network interface is not switched off during
halt (and perhaps also reboot?), by deleting the -i option in
/etc/init.d/halt (and perhaps /etc/init.d/reboot). You will notice that
if the light at the ethernet port is on, even when you later have
powered off the system, you have succeeded in enabling the network
interface.


One more thing, the wake-up time is longer then the SB3 want's to wait,
so I'll have to "wake it" twice, vote for a change to configurable wait
time on http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4782


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