How do I get wake on lan to work?

[c3lica]

I have a ASUS P5QL PRO mobo and can not seem to get wake on lan working. There does not seem to be any way to enable wake on lan via bios so it must be on all the time. when I called asus they said it would have to do with setting up the os correctly but the guy i talked to didn't know anything about linux.

I did this
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=234588
and it did not work.

Any idea on what I should do?

EDIT: I am running ubuntu server 8.10

EDIT #2:
I installed acpi-support sudo apt-get install acpi-support

Then did step one here.
http://linux-tipps.blogspot.com/2008/11/fixing-wake-on-lan-in-ubuntu-810.html

That seems to work well.

[FarehamWeather]

I have done it and it works, ubunu server did not need configuring just the bios settings.

make sure use the the ip and mac address of the machine, try different software.

[Iowan]

I found a help page for etherwake (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/etherwake.8.html), but it seems to be the other side of the coin.

[theDaveTheRave]

I have done it and it works, ubunu server did not need configuring just the bios settings.

make sure use the the ip and mac address of the machine, try different software.

A little more instruction would be really great?

do you have a link to a how to?

How do you wake the Server from another pc? how to do it from windows or another Linux would be helpfull....

I know that this may sound like a bunch of rather silly questions, so appologies for that.

Thanks.

C3lica, you got this working....

did you just do the steps in the initial howto and then the first step in your second link?

Again sorry if I'm being dense.....


David