Re: Wake on LAN support. NetworkManager?

[Steev Klimaszewski <steev gentoo org>]

Holger Macht wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently looking for a place to integrate Wake On LAN
> capabilities/enablement. As a logical result, NetworkManager came to my
> mind.
>
> When talking about Wake On LAN, I'm talking about the functionality
> ethtool provides, and about the network drivers which implement ethtool
> support. I've already created a proof-of-concept patch. The current work
> is based on NetworkManager-0.6.5, just because it's the most recent stable
> release.
>
> I've added three new D-Bus methods:
>
>   getWakeOnLanEnabled
>   getWakeOnLanSupported
>   setWakeOnLanEnabled
>
> So this mail is not a "please commit", but rather a question if it makes
> sense to integrate into NetworkManager at all. The other possibility would
> be to add to HAL if it doesn't fit into the NetworkManager concept.
>
> Comments?
>
>   - Holger

I won't comment on the patch itself (I haven't looked it over yet here) 
but I am wondering exactly what you mean - assuming the laptop is 
asleep/off NM won't be running/active to catch the WOL signal - or is 
this supposed to send it to another machine?   I admit I am not familiar 
with the ethtool and what it does wrt WOL (and only have 1 machine that 
support WOL afaik) but I would think this is something that would be 
more suited for hal, or a persons bios (in fact, as far as I knew, it 
has to be enabled in bios - but I know I am not the most knowledgeable 
person, and I am always willing to learn!)