Wake On Lan with RedHat 9 and onboard Realtek 8139

I have a MSI-6368 mobo with RedHat 9 installed en WOL function enabled
in the BIOS.
This is a server in my home network and now I want to startup this
server with Wake On Lan. Linux is installed without X.
I tryed a lot things but without any luck, the server stays down. When
I do this with a windows box the WOL works fine.
What am I missing, can somebody help with this problem?

Oscar

Oscar Overdijk <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have a MSI-6368 mobo with RedHat 9 installed en WOL function enabled
> in the BIOS. This is a server in my home network and now I want to
> startup this server with Wake On Lan. Linux is installed without X. I
> tryed a lot things but without any luck, the server stays down. When I
> do this with a windows box the WOL works fine. What am I missing, can
> somebody help with this problem?

Missing may be the operative word. For WOL to work, you need to have a
cable (single pair, usually red and green) connected between the NIC and
the motherboard (it usually plugs in between the PCI slots.)

There may be differences in how the packet is expected to be sent,
depending on whether it (the NIC) is AMD or not, IIRC. But I haven't
played with WOL much myself.

Also, some WOL NIC chips (maybe BIOS, I'm not sure) can set a password.

And of course the machine needs to be ATX and turned on at the power
supply.

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Oscar Overdijk typed:

> I tryed a lot things but without any luck, the server stays down. When
> I do this with a windows box the WOL works fine.
> What am I missing, can somebody help with this problem?

have you tried 'ether-wake'?
http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html



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Cameron Kerr <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Oscar Overdijk <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > I have a MSI-6368 mobo with RedHat 9 installed en WOL function enabled
> > in the BIOS. This is a server in my home network and now I want to
> > startup this server with Wake On Lan. Linux is installed without X. I
> > tryed a lot things but without any luck, the server stays down. When I
> > do this with a windows box the WOL works fine. What am I missing, can
> > somebody help with this problem?
>
> Missing may be the operative word. For WOL to work, you need to have a
> cable (single pair, usually red and green) connected between the NIC and
> the motherboard (it usually plugs in between the PCI slots.)
>
> There may be differences in how the packet is expected to be sent,
> depending on whether it (the NIC) is AMD or not, IIRC. But I haven't
> played with WOL much myself.
>
> Also, some WOL NIC chips (maybe BIOS, I'm not sure) can set a password.
>
> And of course the machine needs to be ATX and turned on at the power
> supply.

The MSI motherboard has the Realtek onboard. I know that if you have
ethernetcard with WOL you need the cable between the board and the
card.
It's not a AMD. For Magic Packet from AMD to wake up lan, if the NIC
adres is sent 16 times then Wake On Lan will power up the host.
From the ethtool eth0 I get the information that WOL is supported with
p for the Magic Packet, but after a halt -p and a manuel startup of
the host, the ethtool eth0 gives the information that p is not set.
Strange. Then there is an option for the modules.conf that indicate
that post-install 8139too ethtool -s eth0 wol umbgp do the trick, but
no luck for that so for.

"johnny bobby bee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>. ..
> Oscar Overdijk typed:
>
> > I tryed a lot things but without any luck, the server stays down. When
> > I do this with a windows box the WOL works fine.
> > What am I missing, can somebody help with this problem?
>
> have you tried 'ether-wake'?
> http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html

No I didn't, I want to wake up the Linux server from a window workstation.
Ether-wake can restarting machines that have been soft-powered-down
(ACPI D3-warm state) according to the source.

What happens when you use ethtool by itself to set WOL parameters?
Here's what mine says. My laptop _can_ do WOL, but its not set to in the
BIOS, which may explain the message. (its an Intel NIC also)

root# ethtool -s eth0 wol umbgp
Cannot get current wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported
not setting wol

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(E-Mail Removed) (Oscar Overdijk) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> I have a MSI-6368 mobo with RedHat 9 installed en WOL function enabled
> in the BIOS.
> This is a server in my home network and now I want to startup this
> server with Wake On Lan. Linux is installed without X.
> I tryed a lot things but without any luck, the server stays down. When
> I do this with a windows box the WOL works fine.
> What am I missing, can somebody help with this problem?
>
> Oscar

Well now it works but I don't understand it at all. Maybe a little
bit.
What happened: I put a 3Com 905C-TX ethernet card in my Linux Server
with the MSI-6368 motherboard. I dissabled the onboerd Realtek NIC.
I checked with ethtool eth0 to see the state of 3Com card and there
was no responce from it. Then I used the Magic Packet and Yes it
worked, the Linux Server powered on. I don't understand it but it
works.

Oscar

In /etc/modules.conf add
"options Rlt8139 wol=1"

As I can wake my computer up even power down the machine.
I don't sure if it is work.


"Cameron Kerr" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> What happens when you use ethtool by itself to set WOL parameters?
> Here's what mine says. My laptop _can_ do WOL, but its not set to in the
> BIOS, which may explain the message. (its an Intel NIC also)
>
> root# ethtool -s eth0 wol umbgp
> Cannot get current wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported
> not setting wol
>
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