Great I've managed to get it to work, quite easy to be honest I am just writing it up and putting it in a form I can read. was quite scary when I issued the wakeonlan command the computer in question fired up.
~Jon
I've done it on windows at work. Had to export all the mac addresses
from the DHCP server to produce a batch file to stick as a scheduled
task.
I'm sure you can find a WOL utility and bash script it.
On 14 Dec 2008, at 15:03, Kevanf1 <kevanf1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/14 Jonothon Nihill <jonothon.nihill@gmail.com>:
>> Hiya wondering if any members of the group have any experience with
>> wake-on-lan? or know of any good how-to's on it
>>
>> Thanks
>> ~Jon
>
> Pretty much all I know is that your BIOS has to support it and it
> needs enabling in said BIOS. Other than that I've thought of setting
> it up but never got around to it...I'm sure I did see a HOW TO so if I
> can find it I'll post up the link.
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