LAN (sky2)

After the horrible experiences with the sky2 driver on my last mainboard I expected very little of the two onboard NICs...and was suprised.

Getting WOL to work

The driver does not enable WOL functionality by default, it has to be enabled with ethtool.

ethtool -s eth0 wol g

Be careful not to try this trick with eth1, or you will get a rather amusing effect on suspend-to-disk ;)

After enabling WOL, the machine can be woken up from any other PC with the wakeonlan tool:

wakeonlan 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE

I've done repeated successful wakeups from suspend-to-disk and standby.