[mythtv-users] WOL doesn't seem to work, any pointers?

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Sunday 05 November 2006 23:09, Chad wrote:
> I've read a bunch of stuff on using WOL including a mini-How-TO:
> http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/mini-howto/wol-mini-howto
>-3.html
>
> It seems to be a *very* simple process, but I'm not having much luck.
> I'm sure that the test system I'm trying to get this working on is WOL
> capable (a Commell LV-667T) and I've tried 2 of the 'tools' listed on
> that mini How-TO.  The first one I tried was:
>
> wakeonlan
>
> The command is fairly simple:
> wakeonlan aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
>
Try reversing the MAC address. I had the same problem. Apparently some 
motherboards with the nForce4 chipset have a bug that flips the machine's 
MAC address on shutdown. Windows doesn't do this. Reversing the MAC when 
using the WakeOnLAN tool works fine now. 

  wakeonlan ff:ee:dd:cc:bb:aa