OK, this is solved now so thought I would post back to the list in
case future users search the archives for the same problem and for
anyone who is interested ;)
Thanks Tony, you answer was partially it. I hadn't correctly enabled
WOL on the NIC card:
> I don't know about your Dell, but on my HP
In article <3c857e1c0904270112v48abf0feh18611f66fec11...@mail.gmail.com>,
James Bensley wrote:
>
> I can not work out how to get my Dell NF500 III server to use wake on
> LAN using the on board Broadcom NetExtreme II BCM5708 NIC card? I'm
> running Cent OS 5.3 final (i386).
>
> Basically, If I h
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Has anyone experience with WOL under Centos (5.3).?
> If so, how exactly do you put the machine to sleep,
> and how exactly do you wake it up remotely?
Put the machine in a suspend to ram state using acpi:
echo -n mem > /sys/power/state
you
This is a decent reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
I wrote WoL code for cluster provisioning software earlier in my career. It
is actually quite simple. So long as your motherboard/NIC support WoL and
you have ACPI support then a simple "shutdown" will halt your OS but the N
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Has anyone experience with WOL under Centos (5.3).?
> If so, how exactly do you put the machine to sleep,
> and how exactly do you wake it up remotely?
I've never found WOL to work at all well in any environment.
for it to work at all, you need A) network hardware on the c
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