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Old 04-05-2014
Debian Trouble Configuring Wake On Lan
As the title implies I'm having trouble setting up Wake-On-LAN with my Debian box. Here is the output from ethtool and my /etc/network/interfaces:

Code:
# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# /etc/network/interfaces - configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
    ethernet-wol g


# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
    Supported ports: [ TP ]
    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Full 
    Supported pause frame use: No
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Full 
    Advertised pause frame use: No
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Speed: 100Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Port: Twisted Pair
    PHYAD: 2
    Transceiver: internal
    Auto-negotiation: on
    MDI-X: off (auto)
    Supports Wake-on: pumbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
                   drv probe link
    Link detected: yes

It looks like its set up right, but when I test starting the machine from another Debian computer on the LAN I use this machine's mac address as the only parameter with both etherwake and wakeonlan and get nothing. I read the wiki on this, but have never set this up before any don't know what I'm doing. Any help much appreciated.
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Old 04-08-2014
I'm sorry if what I'm about write is obvious to you but since you say that you've never set up wake-on-lan before I might say some things which might help.

Firstly, what hardware is it? Your hardware must support wake-on-lan before this stands any chance of working. Sometimes this feature is built into the motherboard, sometimes it can work from an add-in network card. In the latter case it's often necessary to connect a tiny cable from the add-in card down onto the motherboard.

Certainly check your BIOS for any mention of wake-on-lan and ensure it's set as allowed in there.

Always test with a 'magic packet' sender from another system very close on the network to ensure the packet isn't clobbered by a firewall or some such. There are many magic packet generators; many Windows based. It doesn't matter a stuff where the magic packet comes from, if the hardware is switched off (but has volts input) it should turn on.

Hope that helps. Do report back progress, or lack of.
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# 3  
Old 04-20-2014
You were correct. No wake-on-lan in the BIOS. Time to find a new board I guess. Thanks.
 
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