WakeOnLan functions not working for me

Sam Morris sam at robots.org.uk
Sat Apr 19 09:00:06 PDT 2008


On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 17:52 +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
> On Sa 19. Apr - 14:33:38, Sam Morris wrote:
> > I was playing around with the WakeOnLan functions but they don't seem to
> > work for me. First I wanted to find out if WoL was supported on my
> > system:
> > 
> >         $ dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal --print-reply /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_13_77_60_aa_1d org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.WakeOnLan.GetSupported
> >         method return sender=:1.2 -> dest=:1.492 reply_serial=2
> >            int32 1
> > 
> > That's odd, shouldn't it have returned a boolean?
> 
> Danny is right, int32 is correct here. That's just a design limitation of
> all scripts called by HAL.

Ok--shouldnt the spec reflect this? It says that the WakeOnLan functions
return a boolean...

> Thanks,
> 	Holger
-- 
Sam Morris <sam at robots.org.uk>


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