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In answer to my own question I need to do ethtool -s eth1 wol p Now all I need to do is find a network card that will support it! Mark On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 16:57 +0000, Mark Hajdukiewicz wrote: > Hi All, > > I have set up wake on lan on my Linux (ubuntu) machine. > > I would like a windows XP computer on my home network to wake the Linux > machine when it needs to access the samba network drive. > > I have created a script for the windows machine which will send the > magic packet and then open the windows file browser, which works well. > The problem is that if the Linux machine is suspended when this window > is open it all goes wrong. > > What I want to do is somehow automagically send the magic packet each > time the windows machine does a network drive access, so if it is > suspended during use it will be woken up prior to the attempt to access > the drive. > > Has anyone managed to do this? > Can the windows network card be forced to prepend a magic packet? > Can the router be forced to prepend a magic packet? > Can the Linux network card be forced to wake on all traffic? > > Thanks > Mark > > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html