Wake On LAN

Under Ubuntu I chose the following way to activate wake on LAN on the eth0 device: # Install ethtool sudo apt-get install ethtool # Create init script to set the wol bit on the device sudo vi /etc/init.d/wakeonlan #!/bin/sh ethtool -s eth0 wol g exit # Make the script executable sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/wakeonlan # Create the init links sudo update-rc.d wakeonlan defaults Under Debian the following approach has been chosen: ...

March 3, 2012 · 1 min · Michael Rumpf