[mythtv-users] Backend powered off/shutdown unexpectedly!

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Fri Jan 31 01:06:14 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Henry Law <news at lawshouse.org> wrote:

> On 30/01/14 02:09, Ian Evans wrote:
>
>> I don't have Wake-on-LAN set, but is it just wake, or can it power on
>> the system as well?
>>
>
> Yann Lehmann has pointed you to what I believe is the best guide to WOL
> for Ubuntists like you and me.  But be aware that, in my experience, cards
> (and built-in network interfaces) behave in one of three ways:
>
> * They don't support WoL at all.  Game over; get a card that does ...
> * They support WoL by default without you having to do anything.
> * They support WoL but only if you tell them to do so.
>
> In my case (and I have two machines like this) they fit into the third
> category, and I /have to enable WoL each time I boot the machine/.  I have
> an ethtool line in one of the startup profiles (there are so many I forget
> which one) which issues the "ethtool -s eth0 wol g" command.
>
> Occasionally I boot something else (bootable CD usually) and then when I
> later reboot into Ubuntu I have to go downstairs and switch the machine on
> physically.
>

New CPU fan on it's way. But I'd still like to check for the ability to do
WOL. Still couldn't clearly see it mentioned in the 6.00pg BIOS. Saw
something that mentioned an ErP setting or something...will double check
when I'm up and running.

Of course in this day & age, if you're WOL is flaky you can always rig up a
net attached bot whose sole task is to press the power button. :-)

On a side note...fired up Windows Media for the 1st time ever to record the
missus' shows while she's out and...EWWW. Can't wait to have myth back.
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