[vdr] Re: I have another dream ;-)

[Mattia Rossi <mattia@technologist.com>]

On 19 Aug 2002 20:22:47 +0000
Rene Bartsch <vdr@bartschnet.de> wrote:

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> > 2nd question: How to make WOL really working with SuSE 7.3? Anybody
> > could do it? I did not find any valid way :(
> 
> On the client to be started it's only hardware/BIOS - no OS. You need to
> connect a WOL cable from your NIC to your mainboard and enable WOL in
> the BIOS. On the other PC you need a tool capable to send a wake-up
> frame to your client. I think ASUS had such a Windoze-tool delivered
> with NIC-onboard-mainboards. But I don't know other tools.
> 
> If someone knows a Linux-tool which creates WOL-frames I also like to
> know about it ... :o)
> 
> Rene


http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html

My client machine has an ECS motherboard (award bios) and a realtek network card ... 

Mattia