In article <3c857e1c0904270112v48abf0feh18611f66fec1175d at mail.gmail.com>, James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> wrote: > > I can not work out how to get my Dell NF500 III server to use wake on > LAN using the on board Broadcom NetExtreme II BCM5708 NIC card? I'm > running Cent OS 5.3 final (i386). > > Basically, If I had windows server 2k3 installed I know that the cards > & mobo etc support WOL I would just have to tick a little box under > the NIC card properties saying "allow wake on LAN" (or words to that > affect). How can I enable WOL for my NIC card? > > I have two identical servers so I have tried putting one to sleep (via > either setting the hibernate time down to 5 mins and waiting for it to > time out and hibernate or by running the following as root: echo > shutdown > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state) and waking > it up with ether-wake and WOL (an rpm package) but neither worked, > also with a windows WOL client from a windows server which I know > works as it is regularly in use but the system didn't come up. The > light is glowing green on the mobo just next to the two on board NIC's > (both are the same BCM5708's); the light is on but nobodies home? > > What setting might I be missing within CentOS its self to keep the > cards alive when the power is out? Any help is greatly appreciated. I don't know about your Dell, but on my HP ML110 servers, I had to add a line to ifcfg-eth0 to make ethtool tell the LAN port to enable the wake-on-lan function: ETHTOOL_OPTS="wol g" You will need to take the interface down and up after adding the line. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org