WOL not working on Centos 6.4

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WOL not working on Centos 6.4

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Dear all,

I am starting my remote machine with help of a magic packet by using ether-wake utility. CentOS-6.4 64-bit has been installed on it. "ETHTOOL_OPTS="wol g" is configured in /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0.

below is out put of ethtool

#ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 2
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
drv probe link
Link detected: yes


My Desktop Server is HP compaq 8200 minitower convertible pc
Network card is Intel 82597LM Giga bit network.

Problem:

When I am sending the magic packet to the remote machine on LAN, it receive the magic packet, that I can see that it's power lights are on. But on the screen it only show a blinking cursor blinking on it for many hours. But do not load the POST process/boot into the operating system. However an other machine is booting fine. Both machines have same configurations.

Please help.

Thanks in advance.
Kind Regards,
Mashkoor Qadir,
mashkoor.qadir@yahoo.com
http://www.redmath.com
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