Re: 2.6.23-mm1 tg3 wake-on-lan oddity...

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Nov 27 2007 - 16:51:53 EST


On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:34:57 PST, Michael Chan said:

> Ideally, the BIOS should modify the NVRAM's setting when it is changed.
> We will talk to Dell to get their opinion on this as this is very
> confusing to the user.

That would certainly explain what I'm seeing, and I can certainly wait
if the answer is indeed "Buggy BIOS, fixed in D820 A08 or A09 or whenever".
(If Dell cares, I'm at BIOS A07 already).

In the meantime, I just stuck an 'ethtool -s eth0 wol d' in /etc/rc.local
until a proper fix shows up.

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