Hi,
Thanks to Hetz and Michael for the replys, but I don't want the machines
to power up automatically - actually, this was the default of their
BIOSes and I spent quite a long time to disable that from within Linux
without rebooting (and without going to each console separately :-)).
I want to boot them manually, but from remote, when I know for sure that
the electricity is stable.
Now, the fact that the board and BIOS has enough power and "wisdom" to
check whether it is configured to boot up automatically when power is
back, suggests that it should also be able to respond to WOL - at least
for someone as uninformed as me. Doesn't that make sense? But besides
sense; has anyone tried that and made it work? Does it depend on the
board, the BIOS, the power supply, the ethernet card, the hub/switch?
BTW, the 'status' LED on the switch does light up when I turn on the
power supply.
Before getting exact explanations, which I am certainly hoping to get,
I wish to get actual reports, from anyone who played with it.
Am I the only freak here?
Thanks,
Didi
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 05:43:21PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hmm,
>
> As much as I know - WOL (Wake On Line) is totally disabled when you power off
> your machine from the power switch on the back of your machine...
>
> As for electric break - I think you can set it up in the BIOS (don't remember
> which function)..
>
> Hetz
>
> On Wednesday 10 July 2002 17:03, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sorry for being off-topic.
> >
> > Did anyone here try wake-on-lan and cares to share the experience?
> >
> > Specifically, I have machines that wake up well usually, after
> > being shutdown by software or by the front-panel power button,
> > but not after turning off and on the button in the power supply,
> > or, more importantly, after an electricity break.
> >
> > For those interested, I use ether-wake from
> > <http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html>.
> >
> > Do others have better experience? Am I expecting something
> > impossible from the supply/card/board?
> >
>
>
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