I'm trying to make the wake on lan settng persistent on a headless machine. Network is setup by systemd networkd. To enable and make WOL setting persistent, I am trying to use systemd link files. I have a /etc/systemd/network/50_WOL.link file with: [Link] WakeOnLan=magic in it and it is having no effect, despite numerous examples that it should work are available on the net. The interesting thing is, when I run the following, the WOL will be enabled! But otherwise WOL is disabled. It is like systemd/udev is not parsing the file or something and I believe that this could be a bug in gentoo. $udevadm test-builtin net_setup_link /sys/class/net/eth0/ calling: test-builtin Load module index Parsed configuration file /lib64/systemd/network/99-default.link Parsed configuration file /etc/systemd/network/50_WOL.link Created link configuration context. ID_NET_DRIVER=r8169 Config file /etc/systemd/network/50_WOL.link applies to device eth0 link_config: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable. Could not set Alias, MACAddress or MTU on eth0: Device or resource busy Could not apply link config to eth0, ignoring: Device or resource busy ID_NET_LINK_FILE=/etc/systemd/network/50_WOL.link Unload module index Unloaded link configuration context.
It is sad to read that you have problems with the software. The situation seems to be a bit more complicate and requires some analysis. We can not help you efficiently via bug tracker. The bug tracker aims rather on specific problems in .ebuilds and less on individual systems. I have had very good experience on the gentoo IRC [1] with questions like this. Of course there are also forums and mailing lists [2,3]. I hope you understand, that I will close the bug here therefore and wish you good luck on one of the mentioned channels [4]. Please reopen the ticket in order to provide an indication for an specific error in an ebuild or any gentoo related product. [1] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/irc-channels/ [2] https://forums.gentoo.org/ [3] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/all-lists.html [4] https://www.gentoo.org/support/
