[mythtv-users] WOL problem - Via Epia EN (via-velocity)

[R. G. Newbury]

On 08/29/2010 06:34 AM, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I know that a lot of you are using WOL in order to wake up frontends and
> slave backends. I can't seem to make it work (fully) so I thought I'd
> ask here. Feel free to point me elsewhere, but Google hasn't been my
> friend thus far.
>
> I have a diskless combined frontend and slave backend, running on a Via
> Epia EN motherboard, which has a via-velocity on-board NIC. I can make
> it wake up using a magic packet, but only after the power to the
> motherboard has been cut completely (by pulling and reinserting the
> power cord), not after the machine has been shut down.
>
> I believe that this tells me that the BIOS is set correctly, but that
> WOL is being disabled or not being re-enabled in the shutdown sequence,
> or just not working in my kernel version, or that the shutdown sequence
> is somehow interacting with the diskless nature of the machine, or ....
> However, the Ethernet port's carrier LED is lit green after shutdown,
> same as after the power has been cut and restored. Green means carrier
> at 100Mbit/s; when the machine is on this LED is amber because that is
> what corresponds with carrier at 1Gbit/s.
>
> The machine runs Mythbuntu 9.04 with kernel version 2.6.28-19-generic.
>
> I've already included the following lines in /etc/network/interfaces,
> but I suspect they don't do anything because once eth0 is down the
> machine no longer has access to files such as /etc/network/interfaces,
> ifconfig and ethtool...
>
> post-down ifconfig eth0 up
> post-down ethtool -s eth0 wol g
>
> Any hints would be gratefully received.

I still have a Via SP13000 mb, which used to be my mythbox. ISTR that 
the motherboard had a jumper setting, *as well as the BIOS setting* to 
enable WOL. Something to do with the normal shutdown clearing a 
particular BIOS bit. There was/is a similar problem with the auto-wake 
alarm settings, you have to do things *just* right. ( IE needs the 
correct incantation and/or sacrifice.)

You might try searching about the alarm settings problem. That mught 
point in the correct direction. Sorry I cannot be more specific.

Geoff






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              R. Geoffrey Newbury