WakeOnLan functions not working for me

[Sam Morris]

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?

I added some tracing info to the hal-system-wol-linux script and
observed the following:

        + SUPPORT_FLAGS=
        + IFACE=eth0
        + which ethtool
        + '[' 1 '!=' 0 ']'
        + echo org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.WakeOnLan.NoEthtool
        + exit 1

So it seems the exception is not being returned to the caller.

After I installed ethtool, calling GetSupported returned '0' instead of
'true', despite:

        + SUPPORT_FLAGS=
        + IFACE=eth0
        + which ethtool
        + '[' 0 '!=' 0 ']'
        + case "`basename $0`" in
        ++ basename /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-wol-supported-linux
        + wol_supported
        + wol_get_flags
        ++ ethtool eth0
        ++ awk '/Supports Wake-on:/{if ($3 ~ /g/) print $3 }'
        + SUPPORT_FLAGS=pg
        + '[' -n pg ']'
        + return 0
        + '[' -n pg ']'
        + return 0
        + exit 0

And GetEnabled returned 1 instead of false, despite:

        + SUPPORT_FLAGS=
        + IFACE=eth0
        + which ethtool
        + '[' 0 '!=' 0 ']'
        + case "`basename $0`" in
        ++ basename /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-wol-enabled-linux
        + wol_enabled
        ++ ethtool eth0
        ++ awk '/[^s ]Wake-on:/{if ($2 ~ /g/) print $2 }'
        + ENABLED=
        + '[' -n '' ']'
        + return 1
        + exit 1

I'm using hal 0.5.11~rc2.

-- 
Sam Morris <sam at robots.org.uk>