[ydl-gen] Remote Power Control for G5 w/ YDL ...

[Joe Duchtel]

Hello -

I checked for the ethtool but it is not installed.  I was able to find the
*.rpm for YDL 5-1 (ethtool 3-1) and YDL 6-1 (ethtool 5-1) but not for the
YDL 4.0.1 that I have installed.  Is there any place I can find the version
for that or will a newer one work?

Thanks!
Joe



On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Hal Martin <hal.martin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Joe Duchtel wrote:
> > That's what I was afraid of!   I have been using "magic packages" to
> > do this for (even older) PCs for a while and have yet to find one that
> > does not support it.
> >
> > Maybe there is another "magic" trick?
> A little searching around the Apple website yields this document:
>
> http://support.apple.com/kb/TA20741?viewlocale=en_US
>
> *"Wake for network administrative access"*
>
> Also known as "Wake-on-LAN," this allows network administrators and
> certain applications to wake the computer from sleep by sending it a
> special type of network packet.
>
> Available on these computers:
>
>    * All Macintosh computers produced in 2003
>    * Power Mac G5
>    * Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) or later
>    * Power Mac G4 Cube (all models)
>    * PowerBook (FireWire) or later
>    * iBook (all models)
>    * iMac (Early 2001) or later
>
>
> It appears that if your G5 should have support for WoL. Surprisingly
> even my PowerMac G4 'Mystic' supposedly supports it.
>
> As for powering up the machine using the WoL "magic" packet in linux, it
> appears that a utility called ethtool can throw a flag to your NIC to
> enable WoL. More info on that here:
>
> http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202174
>
> However when I use wakeonlan on my PowerMac G4, with the option to wake
> from LAN set in System Preferences, it does not power on or wake from
> sleep. This may or may not be due to the fact that the original power
> supply died and has been replaced by an ATX one.
>
> At this point in time I cannot find any nvram command to set this to
> work indefinitely. I'm also hearing mixed reports of success/failure on
> Macs. It seems that waking from sleep using WoL works 100% of the time,
> but your mileage will vary when it comes to actually powering on the
> machine from the off-state.
>
> Best of luck.
>
> -Hal
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Joe
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Kai Staats <kstaats at us.fixstars.com
> > <mailto:kstaats at us.fixstars.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Joe,
> >
> >     > This seems to be working if I interrupt power while it is
> >     running (e.g.
> >     > login screen) and then reconnect it.  It is not working if I
> >     shut it down
> >     > properly from the login screen.
> >     >
> >     > Any ideas?
> >
> >     If you shut down power properly, then you would require wake-on-lan
> to
> >     power-on remotely, which I do not believe was supported in Apple
> G4/G5
> >     systems.
> >
> >     If I am wrong, please correct me Owen (or whomever).
> >
> >     kai
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