Hi!

I would like to wake up my computer from another computer with the wake-on-lan option. On my computer I have both windows xp and slackware 10.2. If I power off the computer from windows xp the wake on lan works, but if it's from slackware it doesnt.

So this means that the bios and hardware is well configured but slackware software not.

In /etc/rc.d/rc.0 i have commented the lines where inet1 is stopped and even i commented the lines about stopping pcmcia's devices.

In my lilo.conf i have the command "apm=power-off" so that my computer powers off when I close it form KDE. May be this stops the ethernet card?

I also use the ethtool writing: "ethtool -s eth0 wol g"
Command that doesnt give me any error. And then when I make : "ethtool eth0" it shows me how the option g is enabled.

Any idea of what is happening? Or what can I try to solve it?

Thanks!

Well, I haven't tried the WOL in my slackware. But this does intrigues me.
What's your ethernet card?
Maybe we can check these first:
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/doku...ku.php?id=blog
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=444793

Hi!
Thanks for answering! I have tried the suggestions of that links but I stay unable to make it work :-(. But i will contiue trying.
My ethernet card is RTL8139 Realtek.

Hi again!

Finally I have achieved the task of using wake-on-lan on slackware 10.2. I will explain here what i did so if it interests anyone. However i tried so many things that my actual configuration is a sum of smalls changes so may be I forget some small changes.

-In my bios configuration y enabled the wake-on-lan option. And then put ACPI Suspend Type to S3(STR). This last change i dont know if it's necessary.

-In my /etc/rc.d/rc.0 I wrote the command "/usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol umbg" after:

# Bring down the networking system:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 ]; then
. /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 stop
fi

and after this:

# Shut down PCMCIA devices:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia ] ; then
. /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop
# The cards might need a little extra time here to initialize.
sleep 5
fi

I dont know if both are necessary but im fed up of making tests :-)