Brute-Force WoL
by balleman on Mar.21, 2009, under Linux
For some time now, wake-on-LAN has not been working on my home server PC. I had been using WoL to wake the machine via a cron job on my firewall before I got home from work, and also to power the machine on remotely if I needed to get a file or such. I had guessed a kernel change was to blame, but several updates since have not resolved, and my search for related bugs only turned up advice that didn’t work. So, I threw in an Intel e1000 and cabled it up (using the on-board for most purposes, as the e1000 is only PCI), and WoL “just works” with the e1000. FWIW, the on-board is an Nvidia MCP55. Problem solved… or at least worked around.
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