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Nov 5, 2014 | 11:55 am

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gfunkdave

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No, it definitely is still eth0. And I do have ethtool installed - I'd had a script in /etc/init.d/ for ages that turned on WoL at boot. But now I just get this:

Code:

david@dalton:~$ sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol g
[sudo] password for david:
Cannot get current wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported
  not setting wol

Furthermore, as you can see, ethtool doesn't even recognize that the NIC supports Wake On Lan:

Code:

david@dalton:~$ sudo ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Current message level: 0x000060e4 (24804)
                               link ifup rx_err tx_err hw wol
        Link detected: yes

This is because the, er, dastardly developer I mentioned above has removed support from the driver.

So how do I get it back?

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