Wake On Lan

[mvallevand]

Mounted /etc/mvpmc on another server (i.e not the gbpvr server but a server that is on 24/7). Started you debug mvpmc binary from that share and piped the output to a logfile there.

Now everything works well. I can power on/off the mvp and wake up the gbpvr server by that. Wake on lan seems to work everytime.

Why does it work now. What is the difference compared to run the latest alpha dongle from the gbpvr server?

Don't you hate it when you go through all kinds of trouble and things works like they're supposed to? In any case there were two changes that could be related. One I do initialize the mac address from the browser.config so it will load before you ever go into emulation mode. If this fixed it then you might actually want to copy browser.config from your share by placing it in the mvpmc folder and adding this line to the beginning of dongle.bin.config

cp /etc/mvpmc/browser.config /etc

The other change related to specifying the network card (eth0 or eth1) for ping and ether-wake. The only way this would be a problem if you have the wireless mvp running in wired mode and there was a bug in the mvpmc startup.

I'm glad that it's working now.

Martin

[anneb]

Hi,
I'd like to get the WOL working on my GBPVR server. I have the mvpmc dongle in the gbpvr server dongle folder and on switch on I get the Mvpmc menu's and can go into emulation mode. If my server is hibernating the mvp doesn't wake it at all.
I see mentions of dongle and browser config files but I can't find where they are supposed to be

I know its probably a dumb question but its got me stumped!

[OscarL]

Hi,
When I was struggling to get wake on lan to work with GBPVR and mvpmc I found that it is quite useful to first determine whether I could wake up the server from any computer on the network.
There is a little utility called mc-wol that you can find here http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm where you send a wol command (magic packet) to your server.
You can also telnet into the mvp (loog in as root) and execute the command /usr/bin/ether-wake xx:xx:xx:xx:xx where xx... is the mac adress of your server.
By doing that you can determine whetherthe problem is with the mvp or your server.

Hope this helps
Oscar

[mvallevand]

Hi,
I'd like to get the WOL working on my GBPVR server. I have the mvpmc dongle in the gbpvr server dongle folder and on switch on I get the Mvpmc menu's and can go into emulation mode. If my server is hibernating the mvp doesn't wake it at all.
I see mentions of dongle and browser config files but I can't find where they are supposed to be

I know its probably a dumb question but its got me stumped!

It's not a dumb question at all. This thread did get a bit complicated to follow.

I agree with OscarL's suggestion to make sure that you can wake the server up without using mvpmc, since this can be a big issue. Sometimes this is as simple as changing your pc's sleep mode ie from hibernate to standby, and sometimes it get into bios setting, so there is no simple answer. If you only have one pc one your network you might have to google for your motherboard, your NIC card with WOL to see if anyone else has done this already.

Once you have the proper WOL setting for your hardware, you don't need any special files to take advantage of WOL. mvpmc will still send the WOL packet to your NIC. You won't have the advantage of the ping test to see if the server has booted before trying to connect or the command line options to tweak it so the process is definitely more manual, you may have to try a couple of logins to figure out how your system reacts.

There are also two things I've never tried. WOL over a direct connect and over wireless.

Martin

[anneb]

Hi

Thanks for the prompt reply. I can start the server from another pc using mc-wol and also by telnetting into the MVP but not from powering up the MVP normally

I have to put the MVP into emulate mode manually it just runs through the 30 attempts and drops back to the MVPMC menu

[anneb]

I have 3 pc's in my network here at home, all upstairs remote from the MVP which is hard wired. I can wake the server from any pc and from the Mediapvr via telnet. but not from a normal switch on via remote

[mvallevand]

I have 3 pc's in my network here at home, all upstairs remote from the MVP which is hard wired. I can wake the server from any pc and from the Mediapvr via telnet. but not from a normal switch on via remote

Rather then powering off, could you try to exit emulation with the Go Back key combination, power off the server and then go back to emulation mode. If that works, then could you confirm you are using the alpha version? The nightly and the 0.3.3 won't save the mac address during a power off.

Martin

[anneb]

Hi,
I'm using Alpha dongle bin 2007-04-02

Did you mean you wanted me to power off the gbpvr server from the media player?

[anneb]

sorry I realised what you wanted me to do after I replied to you.

Doing what you suggested worked, I didn't think it was going to as it was at 28 tries out of 30 when it connected.

Is there somewhere I can physically put the mac address in the MVP?

[mvallevand]

sorry I realised what you wanted me to do after I replied to you.

Doing what you suggested worked, I didn't think it was going to as it was at 28 tries out of 30 when it connected.

Is there somewhere I can physically put the mac address in the MVP?

It is stored but obviously not properly. To save it until you next dongle.bin load, enter your mvp's IP address into browser Change the field contents for "MVP Server IP:" to the GBPVR IP (this will add the ping too), "Startup Item:" to Emulation if you want, and click Update Config. Powering off the remote should now do what you want.

Martin