Wake-on-LAN with Yukon2 NIC
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Wake-on-LAN with Yukon2 NIC

Jurjen Bokma

November 2009

So my Shuttle box has a BIOS that lacks the options to let it boot from the clock automatically every day. But I have an OpenBSD box that is always on, and I wake the Shuttle up On LAN from there:

  1. Putting the Yukon2 driver in WOL-mode

    In /etc/init.d/wol, put: 

      ethtool -s eth0 wol g

    Then be sure to

    sudo chmod a+rx /etc/init.d/wol
    sudo update-rc.d wol start 80 S .

  2. Running the wol-script

    Now you can call sudo /etc/init.d/wol manually, or even better, reboot, then shut it down.

  3. Installing wol on OpenBSD

    export PKG_PATH=http://lwp21.service.rug.nl/openbsd/4.4/packages/i386/
    sudo pkg_add wol

  4. Waking up the Shuttle

    On the OpenBSD box, say:

    wol -i 129.168.13.247 00:11:22:33:44:55

    And the Shuttle boots.

  5. Crontabbing the command

    Use crontab -e and put something like: 

      05 17 * * *

    to make it boot daily at five past five p.m.

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