[mythtv-users] OT: wake on lan of slave BE/FE?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/01/2009 10:48 AM, Gordon McLellan wrote:
> Does anyone out there have an nforce 4 based machine with working WOL
> from a suspend state (using the forcedeth driver)?  I can wake the
> machine from a power-off state using the reversed mac address (known
> forcedeth bug), however, it will not wake from a suspend state.  I
> have used ethtool to enable the "magic packet" wake-on support in the
> driver (apparently wake-on: g means magic packet)
...
> I assume since it will wake from a power off (which is controlled by
> the bios?) and not from a suspend (which is controlled by software?)
> that it must either be a shortcoming on my part to set something
> correctly, or less likely, a bug in the driver?  The machine while
> suspended, wakes with the pc power button on the MCE remote as well as
> any mouse or keyboard activity.  Under windows, I am able to wake the
> machine from suspend, after setting "Allow this device to wake the
> computer" in device manager.
>
> I'm using 32 bit mythdora 10.2, but I am not sure it is a distribution
> specific problem.
>
> Any suggestions?
Note that there was a new bug (they fixed the reversed MAC bug in 
2.6.18, IIRC) that crept into the forcedeth driver in May (?) of 2008 
that got fixed in Feb 2009.  The new bug affected, among other things, 
suspend.

Mike