Dell PowerEdge 1750 Wake On LAN on Gentoo/Funtoo Linux
May 24, 2012 · BCM5704 dell poweredge Linux poweredge 1750 tg3 wake on lan wolAfter my previous entry about my PowerEdge 1750 , I’ve been trying to get Wake-On-LAN working. On every other machine I own, it simply involves at most activating WOL in the BIOS, then running ‘ethtool -s eth0 wol g’ on boot, but the PowerEdge 1750 with the “Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet” …
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May 20, 2012 · bios upgrade dell poweredge esm upgrade Linux poweredge 1750I recently received a free Dell Poweredge 1750 from work ( they were having a clearout of old hardware and I grabbed it first ), and naturally the first thing I installed was Funtoo ( essentially it’s an experimental version of Gentoo ) .
Installation worked fine, but the only problem I have is the server is quite …
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