WOL Whoes!

nicolasdiogo · 09-21-2011, 03:33 AM

hello

i have my motherboard setup to enable WOL (wake on lan)

but the OS is not allowing the card to be in a state where is accepts the 'magic-packet'. it seems to turn off the system fully.

normally i would expect to see the network card lights blinking when the system is off. but they are not.

when checking debian i find:

Code:

# cat /proc/acpi/wakeup 
Device  S-state   Status   Sysfs node
PCE2      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:02.0
PCE3      S4    *disabled  
PCE4      S4    *disabled  
PCE9      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:09.0
PCEA      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:0a.0
SBAZ      S4    *disabled  
UAR1      S4    *disabled  pnp:00:0b
P0PC      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:14.4
UHC1      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:12.0
UHC2      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:12.2
USB3      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:13.0
UHC4      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:13.2
USB5      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:16.0
UHC6      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:16.2
UHC7      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:14.5
PE20      S4    *disabled  pci:0000:00:15.0
PE21      S4    *disabled  
PWRB      S4    *enabled

as i understand, there no network card with WOL enabled.
however, i find that my network is supposed to be WOL enabled:

Code:

# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 
        Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                                             1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 
        Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: MII
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: pumbg
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
        Link detected: yes

so the card seems to be on GbE mode and has WOL enabled - is that right?
since there are 2 cards, i also checked the other and show similar output.

i tried running the command

Code:

ethtool -s eth0 wol g && ethtool -s eth1 wol g

but that does not change the output of:

Code:

# cat /proc/acpi/wakeup

and when i shutdown the system it does not respond to WOL packets.

any ideas on howto troubleshoot this problem?

thanks a lot.

Nicolas

BertM · 09-21-2011, 10:05 AM

"cat /proc/acpi/wakeup" returns disabled for all entries on my desktop machine as well. However, I can boot it using wakeonlan.

A problem I first had, was that I was dualbooting it with XP at the time and appearantly wakeonlan had to be activated on XP as well, for it to work on Debian.

Is your machine located on the same LAN or are you trying to access it from outside?

What is the exact line you are using to send the magic packet?

nicolasdiogo · 09-21-2011, 02:47 PM

hi bern

i am on the same network as the system.
in fact, i can wake up the system next to it - just fine (debian x64 testing)
this system has only debian x64 on it.

to be on the safe side i tried using ports 9 and 7 UDP
wakeonlan -p9 -i 192.168.1.255 00:25:22:b6:e0:9d
wakeonlan -p7 -i 192.168.1.255 00:25:22:b6:e0:9d

i have red about this subject on the web and i have also added the following into my /etc/rc.local
/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol g
/sbin/ethtool -s eth1 wol g

but nothing yet.

what else can be done?

thanks,

BertM · 09-21-2011, 04:53 PM

I usually just go with the default (wakeonlan mac-address) but those lines seem to be correct and they work for me as well.

Have you checked if WOL is turned on in the BIOS? There is often an option there to enable/disable it. On my desktop it was "Wake up by PME".

nicolasdiogo · 09-22-2011, 08:30 AM

i have a ASRock 880G Pro3 v2
and according to their support team

enable [PCI Devices Power On] in UEFI.
You can find the option in UEFI -> [Advanced] -> [ACPI Configuration] -> [PCI Devices Power On].
Then boot into OS and shut down system to try.

but it does not wake up. not matter what i try.

any pointers on how to get this solved?

thanks,