[Cbe-oss-dev] WakeOnLan Issue

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Jiafu Gao wrote:
> I want to enable WOL by following Geoff's instruction on http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-howto/ps3-wake-on-lan-howto.txt. It does not work for me. Here is the output:
> 
> # sudo ethtool eth0:
>   Settings for eth0:
>         Supported ports: [ TP ]
>         Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>                                 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
>         Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
>         Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>                                 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
>         Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
>         Speed: 100Mb/s
>         Duplex: Full
>         Port: Twisted Pair
>         PHYAD: 0
>         Transceiver: internal
>         Auto-negotiation: on

Mine prints 2 additional lines here:

|         Supports Wake-on: g
|         Wake-on: d

>         Link detected: yes 
> # sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol g
>   Cannot get current wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported
>     not setting wol

I get no error here, except on old firmware, but there `ethtool eth0'
advertises there's no WoL support:

|         Supports Wake-on: d
|         Wake-on: d

> The
> linux on my PS3 is Ubuntu 7.10, which means the otheros.bld is old.
> Could the old otheros.bld be the problem? If so, can I simply update

That should not matter, only the currently running kernel should matter
(you're not running ethtool from the kboot prompt, do you?).

> the otheros.bld without update my linux? (Since Ubuntu 8.04 has serious issues). Also, is there anyway to check the version of otheros.bld?

Type `uname -a' at the kboot prompt.

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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