Getting Wake-On-Lan to work with a Shuttle SK41G and Mandrake Linux 9.1
My main computer is a Shuttle SK41G. It is a great computer… elegant, powerful, and small. I have windows installed for games (the SK41G is great for LAN parties), but I use Mandrake Linux most of the time. To get Wake-On-Lan(WOL) working with it, I had to do two things:
- Enable WOL in the BIOS. The options for this are in “Power Management Setup”–>”IRQ/Event Activity Detect”. There are two options: “PowerOn by PCI Card” and “Modem Ring Resume”. I’m not sure why, but either option enables WOL when the computer has just been plugged into power, but “PowerOn by PCI Card” is the only one I could get to enable WOL when linux shuts down the computer. (WOL is strange that way…)
- Configure linux so WOL is enabled when the computer shuts down. This WOL FAQ suggests adding a post-install line to /etc/modules.conf to run ethtool, but that didn’t work on my system. Instead I put this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
ethtool -s eth0 wol ubmg
March 25th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
[...] The OS on the target machine has to leave the network card in a WOL-ready state when it shuts down. Instructions for linux and windows. Here is how I set up my Shuttle SK41G for WOL [...]
June 26th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I know this is an old post but just to say many thanks - I’ve stuggled for days with the SK41 not working on WOL - this sorted it in an instant. Isn’t the internt wonderful - I’d have given up, now I’ve learn’t something instead.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Glad it was helpful!