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Power Management
Figure 17.4: YaST Power Management: Battery Charge Level
existing computers on your network that you can include in your WOL list.
If a DHCP server is not running, enter the remote computers manually.
Click ‘Add’ and enter the host name and MAC (media access connector)
address for the network card. The MAC address is unique for every net-
work device and can be displayed with:
# ip link show eth0
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOTRAILERS,UP>
mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:80:c8:94:c3:e7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
In ‘Enter the MAC Address of the client:’, enter the value contained in
‘link/ether’. Confirm with ‘Save’. The configuration with YaST is now com-
plete.
17.7.3 Waking up Computers
If your computers are appropriately configured, wake them up in the WOL
YaST module by clicking ‘Wake up’. The selected computer then starts.
Another option is to enter the command ether-wake from the netdiag
package. With this command, a particular computer can be woken up by
entering its MAC address as in ether-wake 00:80:C8:94:C3:E7. Ob-
tain help for this command with --help or -u.
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