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Good morning all, |
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I have an issue with my Gentoo box but it's not Gentoo-specific, or even |
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software-specific for that matter, so apologies for posting here. |
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I have enabled wake on LAN. I've set this up in the BIOS as well as in |
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Gentoo: ethtool is run on each boot to enable 'wol' and I've modified |
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configs and scripts so that the halt command doesn't power down my |
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network interface. |
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Wake on LAN works. If I initiate a 'shutdown -h now', wait for the |
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machine to power off then, in the next few minutes, send a magic packet |
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to it, it powers back up and boots. Fine. |
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However, if I wait a few hours before sending the magic packet, the |
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machine does not power back up and the machine can only be powered back |
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up by pressing the power button on the machine itself. After testing |
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this over and over, I know as a matter of fact that the only thing that |
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causes the magic packet to fail to power the machine back up is time; if |
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I leave it too long between powering the machine off and sending the |
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magic packet. |
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Has anyone else here experienced this? |
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Thank you in advance, |
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Richard |
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