Re: [opensuse] Update kills WOL???

Rob OpenSuSE wrote:

2008/12/22 James Knott :

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James Knott wrote:

I have tried setting it to both yes and no. Neither re-enables WOL.

This is something I need. How can I get it back??? Do I have to reinstall 11.0???

The kernel is upgraded to, I would expect WOL needs the driver to correctly 'sleep' the system, and then waken it up. There's also been changes to ACPI (helped me), but the fact is, a hell of a lot of code has changed between 2.6.25 and 2.6.27, so it'll take a while to shake down all the features that developers, use less, and aren't as commonly used.

At this point, I'd suggest trying Bugzilla, but if you have a production system, you might have difficulty providing the info requested, and/or applying any test patches due to service interruptions.

You may be able to restore 11.0 from backup, and utilise some spare space for an 11.0 test install.

You might have another LAN card utilising a different driver, that you could try, and see if that functions as expected?

In future if your systems are production, I'd try and hold for a while on release upgrades, say 6 weeks after the general release. However it is good idea to try to make temporary test installs on some similar hardware that is your 'hot' spare, that you can use for QA, and to do so at the beta stage.

The fact is, that advice would be the same with Commercially supported OSes, just look at how business has stuck with XP, rather than go with Vista for example in the Windows world.

WOL is a hardware feature that's been around for years. It has worked on this system for a couple of previous SUSE versions. It should not need any drivers. All it takes is for some other system to send a "magic packet", which the NIC receives and then causes a power up. It has nothing to do with hibernate or other modes. However, it can be disabled by software, as is happening here. I have only one of these systems here and no full backup, so if this isn't resolved soon, I'll be going back to 11.0, which means I won't be able to update any system to 11.1, due to XDMCP problems detailed in another thread. Why doesn't XDMCP work across OpenSUSE versions? It's supposed to be able to work with any computer/operating system/terminal, yet if the remote system is 11.1 and the local one 11.0, the local computer user interface locks up solid. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org