Comments on: Enabling Wake-on-LAN on your local machine (Windows) http://famvdploeg.com/blog/2008/01/enabling-wake-on-lan-on-your-local-machine/ A simple look on things Thu, 03 May 2012 11:33:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Iordan http://famvdploeg.com/blog/2008/01/enabling-wake-on-lan-on-your-local-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-2620 Iordan Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:57:43 +0000 http://famvdploeg.com/blog/?p=34#comment-2620 You don't really need to boot into windows. To enable WOL from linux all you need is ethtool. Assuming that you are running Debian/Ubuntu and your ethernet device is eth0, the following should suffice: sudo apt-get install ethtool sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol g You can put the second command in /etc/rc.local if you find that you need to rerun the ethtool command. You don’t really need to boot into windows. To enable WOL from linux all you need is ethtool. Assuming that you are running Debian/Ubuntu and your ethernet device is eth0, the following should suffice:

sudo apt-get install ethtool

sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol g

You can put the second command in /etc/rc.local if you find that you need to rerun the ethtool command.

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