Difference between revisions of "Wake-on-LAN"

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Under construction More information on how to use wake-on-lan to startup your mythbox will follow shortly...

If you have a network card that supports wake-on-lan, you can powerup your Mythbox by sending it a 'magic packet' over the network. Here's what i did:

First, find out whether your network card supports wol:

# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
       Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
       Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                               100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
       Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
       Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                               100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
       Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
       Speed: 100Mb/s
       Duplex: Full
       Port: MII
       PHYAD: 1
       Transceiver: internal
       Auto-negotiation: on
       Supports Wake-on: pumbg
       Wake-on: g
       Current message level: 0x00000001 (1)
       Link detected: yes

The 'g' in Supports Wake-on: pumbg indicates that wake-on-lan by using a 'magic packet' is indeed supported. Next, you need to make sure that the wake-on-lan support is enabled in the BIOS.

Useful links:

1. http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/ethtool.8.html
2. http://dag.wieers.com/packages/wol/ (wake-on-lan linux client)
3. http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/ (windows client)