Hello - I checked for the ethtool but it is not installed. I was able to find the *.rpm for YDL 5-1 (ethtool 3-1) and YDL 6-1 (ethtool 5-1) but not for the YDL 4.0.1 that I have installed. Is there any place I can find the version for that or will a newer one work?
Thanks! Joe On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Hal Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Joe Duchtel wrote: > > That's what I was afraid of! I have been using "magic packages" to > > do this for (even older) PCs for a while and have yet to find one that > > does not support it. > > > > Maybe there is another "magic" trick? > A little searching around the Apple website yields this document: > > http://support.apple.com/kb/TA20741?viewlocale=en_US > > *"Wake for network administrative access"* > > Also known as "Wake-on-LAN," this allows network administrators and > certain applications to wake the computer from sleep by sending it a > special type of network packet. > > Available on these computers: > > * All Macintosh computers produced in 2003 > * Power Mac G5 > * Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) or later > * Power Mac G4 Cube (all models) > * PowerBook (FireWire) or later > * iBook (all models) > * iMac (Early 2001) or later > > > It appears that if your G5 should have support for WoL. Surprisingly > even my PowerMac G4 'Mystic' supposedly supports it. > > As for powering up the machine using the WoL "magic" packet in linux, it > appears that a utility called ethtool can throw a flag to your NIC to > enable WoL. More info on that here: > > http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202174 > > However when I use wakeonlan on my PowerMac G4, with the option to wake > from LAN set in System Preferences, it does not power on or wake from > sleep. This may or may not be due to the fact that the original power > supply died and has been replaced by an ATX one. > > At this point in time I cannot find any nvram command to set this to > work indefinitely. I'm also hearing mixed reports of success/failure on > Macs. It seems that waking from sleep using WoL works 100% of the time, > but your mileage will vary when it comes to actually powering on the > machine from the off-state. > > Best of luck. > > -Hal > > > > Thanks! > > Joe > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Kai Staats <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Joe, > > > > > This seems to be working if I interrupt power while it is > > running (e.g. > > > login screen) and then reconnect it. It is not working if I > > shut it down > > > properly from the login screen. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > If you shut down power properly, then you would require wake-on-lan > to > > power-on remotely, which I do not believe was supported in Apple > G4/G5 > > systems. > > > > If I am wrong, please correct me Owen (or whomever). > > > > kai > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com > > <http://us.fixstars.com/>' > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' >
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