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MythTV - WOL Functionality
HPC — Wed, 01/21/2009 - 20:28
Over the weekend I set up my MythTV system to boot when it received a wake-on-lan (WOL) packet. I was able to accomplish this by mostly following the instructions I found on the Ubuntu forums. But basically I created a script in /etc/init.d named wol that used ethtool to set my WOL preferences in my network hardware and installed it using update-rc.d.
So what does WOL functionality buy me? Well, I've updated my linksys router to use DD-WRT and I can now start-up my server and grab information from anywhere!
