Hi everybody,

I'm trying to see how to do this. I don't really know much about this.
As far as I know you need to enable in the bios "Wake On Lan" and then what?
For example I'd like to have some kind of a security which will allow only few computers to be available to "Wake on lan" that computer.

How could I do this on linux slackware 12 ?
My computer is Fujitsu Siemens and my lan card is National Semiconductor DP83815.


Any advices are welcome !

Thanks in advance,
Steve

http://www.wlug.org.nz/WakeOnLanNotes

Explains it pretty well.

You just need to send a WOL packet to the MAC address of the machine using ether-wake or similar.

Hi again,
The only thing I didn't understand is where is the shutdown script in slack ?
As mentioned ( in gentoo ) it's /etc/init.d/shutdown.sh ( for gentoo !! ), but I don't quite find anything at /etc/init.d/.
The only file is called "functions" and doesn't have "halt" command in it...


Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance !

In Slackware, shutdown instructions are located in /etc/rc.d/rc.6 (rc.0 is a symlink to rc.6). However, local changes are best made in /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown (which doesn't exist -- you need to create it). It will automatically get executed when the system is being shutdown. HOWEVER, if you look at rc.6, this script gets executed very early on in the shutdown procedure, and if you need to perform actions on your NIC, you may need to edit rc.6 directly (because the network interface is brought down AFTER rc.local_shutdown is run).