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I have a laptop connected to a desktop. I want to start the desktop using a crossover ethernet cable. If I run the command "sudo ethtool -s eth1 wol g" in a terminal then power off on the desktop, the laptop is able to start the desktop with "wol -p 7 -h IP mac". I'd like to have the ethtool command run on startup, so I added ethtool -s eth1 wol g to the end of /etc/rc.local. For some reason after powering off the desktop, the wakeup packet won't work. It will only work if I run the command in the terminal, power off and then send the packet.
This is the full contents of /etc/rc.local -
#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.local: Local multi-user startup script.
#
ethtool -s eth1 wol g
Last edited by themusicalduck (2011-07-27 14:13:07)
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Perhaps a time-delay is required to enable setup..........
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A time delay in rc.local? I added "sleep 10" before ethtool but it hasn't helped.
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I put in "echo test" on the end of the file to see if it was running at all, and it does seem to be running. There was also no output that I could see from ethtool, so I can only assume that it is being run properly and is giving no error.
I can't understand why that command doesn't work when a command done in the terminal after login does work.
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I have no idea why, but since I added the echo onto the end of the file, it has started to work. For now anyway.
EDIT: Spoke too soon. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just doesn't work at all.
Last edited by themusicalduck (2011-07-27 14:13:32)
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