* 24-07-2007, Raj Kiran Grandhi > I am trying to get "wake on lan" to work in Etch. I have a motherboard > with an onboard NIC which supports wake-on-lan. I have enabled > wake-on-lan in the bios. When I poweroff the computer during POST, I am > able to remotely wake it, but if I shut it down from Etch, power to the > NIC is also being turned off and wake-on-lan does not work. I have > edited '/etc/init.d/halt' and removed the '-i' option from the 'halt' > command, but the NIC is still being powered down.
>From the man page it's shutdown interfaces (in networking sense). > If I boot into single user mode (init 1) and call poweroff from there, > the NIC is kept alive after the computer is powered down. Another thing > I have noticed is that when I issue the 'poweroff' from runlevel 2, the > console displays the message "acpi_poweroff called" just before > powerdown and the NIC is also powered off. This message does not appear > when issuing poweroff from runlevel 1. So, ACPI/BIOS whatever thinks that it knows better than somebody else. OTHO, maybe it's another set of bugs in that brain damaged interface, > How can I configure the system to keep the NIC alive after shutting down > from runlevel 2? Try to get rid of acpi: any acpi-related kernel modules (/lib/linux/kernel/drivers/acpi/*) or try kernel parameters (e.g. acpi=off). ____ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
