I get this error with the in-kernel driver: # ethtool -s eth0 wol g Cannot get current wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported not setting wol The external driver works great for me. I'm complaining about this mainly because it is masked and is going to be removed from portage, see bug #145525. my emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ynet.sk/pub/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/" LANG="sk_SK.UTF-8" LC_ALL="sk_SK.UTF-8" LINGUAS="sk" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acl alsa apache2 arts audiofile bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cli crypt cups dbus dlloader doc dri dts dvd dvdread eds elibc_glibc encode esd examples exif fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv icq idn imagemagick imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jikes jpeg kde kernel_linux lcms libg++ linguas_sk mad mikmod mmx mng motif mozdevelop mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl php png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba scanner sdl session slang sndfile speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xcomposite xml xmms xorg xprint xsl xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
WOL is supported in b44 as of 2.6.18
