Wake on lan (WOL) Not working at all

Gekkegast · 2012-04-06 15:58

Hello Guys,

So the last few days i've been tweaking around with my newly built HTPC but I can't seem to get WOL (Wake on Lan) working. I've been following this guide on the XBMC wiki page step-by-step and I didn't got any errors during the progress. (Wiki link: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...buntu%29).

I have succesfully enabled wake on lan in the bios and also created the init.d script. Now when I put the HTPC into Suspend or completely shut down mode and try to wake it up using another (windows) computer nothing just happens.

There are two things that might cause this problem:
1. When the computer is completely turned of or in Suspend mode the LED on the network port is not on? (Which means it's turned of or something)
2. The power supply I'm using has no physical ON/OFF button, so maybe the power supply is not giving any electricity to the mainbord for the wake on lan function to work. (But than also it could not be in suspend mode..)

HTPC Specs:
Mobo: Asrock E350M1/USB3
Case: Spire Power Cube SPM210 (With the included 300W power supply)
OS: Ubuntu 11.10

Any advice or tips would be appreciated.
(Sorry for my bad english)

Jordi

teeedubb · 2012-04-06 23:02

That wiki link doesnt link to anything,,, whats the output of 'sudo ethtool eth0' ?

digitalb0y · 2012-04-06 23:54

Do you have an Android with wifi access to your local network? The official XBMC Remote app will wake your box too if it's able. Or could you install an Ubuntu VM in Virtualbox and then install and run etherwake? It would be interesting to see if a non-Windows wake command works. How are you trying to wake it from the Windows boxes?

Also, what are you apologizing for? If you hadn't said that, I wouldn't have known that English is not your first language.

Gekkegast · 2012-04-10 18:24

(2012-04-06 23:02)teeedubb Wrote: That wiki link doesnt link to anything,,, whats the output of 'sudo ethtool eth0' ?

That command gives me the following output:

Code:

Settings for eth0:

    Supported ports: [ TP ]

    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 

                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 

                            1000baseT/Full 

    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes

    Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 

                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 

                            1000baseT/Full 

    Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only

    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

    Speed: 1000Mb/s

    Duplex: Full

    Port: Twisted Pair

    PHYAD: 0

    Transceiver: internal

    Auto-negotiation: on

    MDI-X: Unknown

    Supports Wake-on: pumbg

    Wake-on: g

    Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)

                   drv probe ifdown ifup

    Link detected: yes

(2012-04-06 23:54)digitalb0y Wrote: Do you have an Android with wifi access to your local network? The official XBMC Remote app will wake your box too if it's able. Or could you install an Ubuntu VM in Virtualbox and then install and run etherwake? It would be interesting to see if a non-Windows wake command works. How are you trying to wake it from the Windows boxes?

Also, what are you apologizing for? If you hadn't said that, I wouldn't have known that English is not your first language.

I do have an Android phone with wifi acces. Im currently trying to set this up and will let you know if it worked. If it didn't I will test it with Ubuntu on a virtualbox.

teeedubb · 2012-04-11 05:53

Looks as though wol is enabled on the machine and from memory its the same as my pc (wake on g). When I get home I'll post the setting I use to wake my machine... I remember I had to muck around with my router settings to get it to work.

Gekkegast · 2012-04-11 10:58

(2012-04-11 05:53)teeedubb Wrote: Looks as though wol is enabled on the machine and from memory its the same as my pc (wake on g). When I get home I'll post the setting I use to wake my machine... I remember I had to muck around with my router settings to get it to work.

Yes, I'm pretty sure I have enabled WOL succesfully. Looking forward to seeing your settings.

I've tested the wake on lan function with the Android Remote, and it worked succesfully! Only from Suspend mode though but it's a huge step, and if I don't get the normal WOL to work this wil also do!

critter2020 · 2012-04-12 01:38

I spent almost a whole day looking through forums, websites and the likes, and what it ended being was just to follow these two threads (in my case anyways)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=234588

and

http://android.mafro.net/wol_tutorial.htm (at the bottom where it says Debian)

Also, in some cases you may have an option in your BIOS about Deep Power Mode or something like that, make sure this is disabled, and in some instances you may have to enable Wake on PCI to wake the computer.

Hope this helps

Good luck

Gekkegast · 2012-04-12 11:17

Hi,
Thx for the information critter2020.

Currently the problem has been solved and I can now succesfully wake my computer on LAN. I've been testing WOL with a laptop with WIFI connection to the network, however this is still not working. Yesterday I tried it with a other wired PC and it's waking up as it's supposed to be.

Still working on the WIFI wake on lan though, and will let you guys know when I make any progress.

Jordi

**artrafael** · 2012-04-12 19:38

(2012-04-12 11:17)Gekkegast Wrote: Still working on the WIFI wake on lan though, and will let you guys know when I make any progress.

Is it the PC you are trying to wakeup that is connected via WiFi or are you referring to using a WiFi connected PC to wakeup your Ethernet-wired PC?

Gekkegast · 2012-04-13 12:13

(2012-04-12 19:38)artrafael Wrote:
(2012-04-12 11:17)Gekkegast Wrote: Still working on the WIFI wake on lan though, and will let you guys know when I make any progress.
Is it the PC you are trying to wakeup that is connected via WiFi or are you referring to using a WiFi connected PC to wakeup your Ethernet-wired PC?

The PC I'm trying to wake is connected with a wire. I'm trying to send the magic packet with my laptop connected to the same network using WIFI.

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teeedubb Member+ Posts: 826 Joined: Mar 2010 Reputation: 14 Location: Down Under	2012-04-11 05:53 Post: #5 Looks as though wol is enabled on the machine and from memory its the same as my pc (wake on g). When I get home I'll post the setting I use to wake my machine... I remember I had to muck around with my router settings to get it to work. XBMC Steam Launcher - Only available for XBMC.
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artrafael Team-XBMC Forum Moderator Posts: 4,440 Joined: Jul 2010 Reputation: 78 Location: USA	2012-04-12 19:38 Post: #9 (2012-04-12 11:17)Gekkegast Wrote: Still working on the WIFI wake on lan though, and will let you guys know when I make any progress. Is it the PC you are trying to wakeup that is connected via WiFi or are you referring to using a WiFi connected PC to wakeup your Ethernet-wired PC?
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