Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Wake on lan

To setup Wake On LAN first you have to edit /etc/init.d/halt and set NETDOWN to no and adjust the BIOS. On the other host, from what you want to wake your computer on, you have to install the package wakeonlan and then you can wake your PC up by executing the command wakeonlan 12:34:56:78:90:12 sometimes you may have to add your comouter's IP address with the switch -i.