[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#619371: base: wake on lan does not work with some special type of machines (Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo P5625)

[Christian Andretzky]

Package: base
Severity: important
Tags: squeeze

Until lenny we could use this machines with no problems. But with squeeze the wake on lan function does no longer work.
I've tried a lot of things but I could not get it working. The machine(s) simply do not wake up. If the Machine was
powered off from the parallel installe Win XP, the wakeup works.

I could also see, that the wakeup does not work if the machine was powered off from a system like Knoppix or SysrescueCD
which also use newer kernels. So I assume, it must have something todo with the way, the kernel handles PME events.

The variable NETDOWN in /etc/default/halt is set to 'no'. 

Unfortunately in this special case wake on lan is the only way to wake up the machine(s) for maintenance and other things. Time controlled wakeup
is not available.

Here a list of the installed kernel-related packages:

ii  firmware-linux-free                                  2.6.32-30                         Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
ii  firmware-linux-nonfree                               0.28                              Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
ii  linux-base                                           2.6.32-30                         Linux image base package
ii  linux-doc-2.6                                        1:2.6.32+29                       Linux kernel specific documentation for version 2.6 (meta-package)
ii  linux-doc-2.6.32                                     2.6.32-30                         Linux kernel specific documentation for version 2.6.32
ii  linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64                         2.6.32-30                         Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64
ii  linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common                        2.6.32-30                         Common header files for Linux 2.6.32-5
ii  linux-image-2.6-amd64                                2.6.32+29                         Linux 2.6 for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64                           2.6.32-30                         Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-kbuild-2.6.32                                  2.6.32-1                          Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.6.32
ii  linux-libc-dev                                       2.6.32-30                         Linux support headers for userspace development
ii  linux-manual-2.6.32                                  2.6.32-30                         Linux kernel API manual pages for version 2.6.32
ii  linux-patch-nfs-ngroups                              4.58.debian.20100106.1            Client-side bypassing of ngroups limitation in NFS protocol
ii  linux-sound-base                                     1.0.23+dfsg-2                     base package for ALSA and OSS sound systems
ii  linux-wlan-ng                                        0.2.9+dfsg-4                      utilities for wireless prism2 cards
ii  linux-wlan-ng-doc                                    0.2.9+dfsg-4                      documentation for wlan-ng
ii  linux-wlan-ng-firmware                               0.2.9+dfsg-4                      firmware files used by the linux-wlan-ng driver
ii  linux-wlan-ng-source                                 0.2.9+dfsg-4                      linux-wlan-ng driver


TIA for Your help.

Christian

P.S. Different from the apt-policy below only stable packages are installed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash