Getting Wake-On-Lan to work with a Shuttle SK41G and Mandrake Linux 9.1

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 02:57:00 +0000

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
```

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Getting Wake-On-Lan to work with a Shuttle SK41G and Mandrake Linux 9.1

Getting Wake-On-Lan to work with a Shuttle SK41G and Mandrake Linux 9.1