Hello everybody!
I am bit new to Alpine, so please be a bit gentle to me.
I just installed "Alpine extended 3.22.1" and although it is running
pretty well (as expected!), I am facing a minor problem with the package
"etherwake": one particular NAS, that has to be wakened sometimes, does
not respond to its wake up call. Ubuntu, which is running on another
machine, includes the package "wakeonlan", and the NAS is responding
very nicely to that command.
The quick and dirty "solution" I came up with is to automatically ssh
into Ubuntu and call the command "wakeonlan" there, when the NAS is
needed. But that can not be a long term solution, because it makes
everything dependent on that Ubuntu machine, which is also supposed to
be replaced by Alpine some times soon.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem? Are there other
packages available, that can do a WOL call, that I have not found yet
and that might work?
Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to the NAS itself to make it
respond to Alpine's "ether-wake". All three machines (Alpine, Ubuntu,
NAS) are part of the same network and are connected to the same router
and HUB, so no boundaries need to be crossed.
Many thanks in advance for any hint and help!
Kind regards,
Wolfgang Klein
Hi Wolfgang,
did you had a look with ether-wake as well ?
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/12555?__goaway_challenge=cookie&__goaway_id=7ae62f942527476ffb6f90925e940bd6&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2Fhttps://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/12555?__goaway_challenge=cookie&__goaway_id=7ae62f942527476ffb6f90925e940bd6&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F
cheers
Michael
On Sun, 2025-08-24 at 09:48 +0200, Wolfgang Klein wrote:
> > Hello everybody!> > I am bit new to Alpine, so please be a bit gentle to me.> > I just installed "Alpine extended 3.22.1" and although it is running > pretty well (as expected!), I am facing a minor problem with the> package > "etherwake": one particular NAS, that has to be wakened sometimes,> does > not respond to its wake up call. Ubuntu, which is running on another > machine, includes the package "wakeonlan", and the NAS is responding > very nicely to that command.> > The quick and dirty "solution" I came up with is to automatically ssh> into Ubuntu and call the command "wakeonlan" there, when the NAS is > needed. But that can not be a long term solution, because it makes > everything dependent on that Ubuntu machine, which is also supposed> to > be replaced by Alpine some times soon.> > Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem? Are there other > packages available, that can do a WOL call, that I have not found yet> and that might work?> > Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do to the NAS itself to make it > respond to Alpine's "ether-wake". All three machines (Alpine, Ubuntu,> NAS) are part of the same network and are connected to the same> router > and HUB, so no boundaries need to be crossed.> > > Many thanks in advance for any hint and help!> > > Kind regards,> > Wolfgang Klein> > >