I normally use a Wake-on-Lan feature to boot my Linux
system from another computer on a small network. I normally
shutdown with 'shutdown -h now' or the power button; both
work equally well. After a shutdown, I can reboot normally
with the WOL feature, but only if I have shutdown with the
2.4.31 kernel. If I use the 2.6.13 kernel, WOL will not
work to boot my machine.

Startup files are the same for both kernels (how could they
be any different), so APM is disabled; only ACPI is running.
Not sure this is the problem, but it seems the most likely.

Any suggestions.

TIA

I have the same problem, only: with the 2.6.13 kernel (my network card uses the forcedeth driver by the way) WOL works, but with 2.15.6 and 2.16.14 kernels I can not get WOL to work, even though "ethtool eth0" reports that WOL is correctly activated (after running "ethtool -s eth0 wol g").

I still don't know if it is the kernel or the sysvinit package which I installed from PiterPUNK's udev page.

It is quite annoying, though.

Eric

Tried your 'ethtool -s eth0 wol g' and got:

Cannot get current wake-on-lan settings:
Operation not supported not setting wol.

My NIC is a VIA VT6102 [Rhine II] embedded controller
on VT8235 (ISA Bridge). This is a rather cheap PcChips
motherboard.