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[QUOTE=wildrabbitt;435168]...actually does and I wanted to try it (on the waker) with no other machines except the waker plugged in to the modem.[/QUOTE]

OK. I'm done. Best of luck.

Sorry, I only read your last post when I replied.

After i said this :

[QUOTE]william@william-GA-78LMT-USB3:~$ sudo etherwake 00:e0:4c:e9:96:a7
SIOCGIFHWADDR on eth0 failed: No such device

I ran sudo poweroff on the machine I wanted to wake.

Is Wakeonlan intended to switch PC's on from a position like that? [/QUOTE]

there was a 10hr gap until your next post.

I've tried to get Wakeonlan to work numerous times, failed and when I ask for help on mersenneforums, everyone gives up on me.

By the time i read your reply, the router the machine to wake was plugged into was in my kitchen half-stuck with drying glue to a piece of perspex which I intend to drill holes in so I can screw to my desk (in an attempt to be organised).

Consequently the situation had changed.

[QUOTE]Please take this as supportive... You seem to go out of your way to not follow suggestions. To be spoon-fed what to do next.[/QUOTE]

I got to figure out why I do that.

Sorry I'm mad.

Thanks for trying.

[QUOTE=wildrabbitt;435173]Sorry I'm mad.

Thanks for trying.[/QUOTE]

No problem. I should learn not to take people's questions seriously. Most are simply trolling....

Ethernet interface name?

Sorry if I'm raising a dead thread here, but this was one of the first results to come up for me when googling this same issue. I made an account to offer what worked for me in case someone out there had the same issue:

My ethernet interface on my source device that was serving up the WOL packet was not named "eth0"; [U]this is the default interface name that etherwake uses however[/U]. Using ifconfig to get my ethernet interface's correct name, and looking at switches for etherwake on it's man page, my command to wake my device ended up looking like this:

etherwake -i [correct interface name] -D [destination mac address]

Hope that helps someone out there. Sorry if I broke any rules I'm new here.