Did that
Are you using the MoBos NIC or an external NIC?
Which MoBo/NIC?
Laptop
Realtec Ethernet
On battery or AC? Most laptops will not WoL on battery.
Plugged in
Is deep sleep disabled?
Couple of things:
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What state are you trying to wake from? Completely powered off or sleep? It may be that your machine only supports WoL from sleep and not a powered off state.
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Sometimes disabling fast start can make WoL work as well. Check this and maybe disable it if itâs enabled and enable if disabled.
Sleep is a dumpster fire in general because of windows and modern sleep
In general at the moment, in order to get âpower management tabâ to appear in the device I have to edit something in the registry which removes sleep entirely
(I just flipped back)
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Already disabled
Powered off is my goal
Eh?
If your laptop doesnât have LEDs, check router side for link up status
Weâre talking on Discord and apparently both his laptop NIC and switch lack link lights⊠
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DT, the only company that understands the need for blinkies.
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So no rt/tx from the laptop nic is essentially dead.
Bios update?
" Iâm having a computer issue"
DTF - âtell me about your blinkiesâ
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My guess is still power management settings in the BIOS if accessible. You need link to receive the magic packet. If they bios and motherboard donât support the power state necessary for a NIC to remain active while in total shutdown then the only option is to try a deep sleep state instead.
Actually I think a laptop manufacturer would very likely not make wake on lan an option for a laptops that are battery powered and in total shutdown mode. Consider the number of people who are going to use wake on lan features in a laptop, and then consider the large amount of work a manufacturer would have to go through in order to allow a NIC in a laptop to be powered up to receive the magic packet, but maybe only if the laptop is plugged in. Thatâs a lot of logic and probably some circuitry to accomplish that. For how many people? On a laptop? I donât think youâre going to be able to do this from full shutdown. If youâre BIOS allows different power and sleep settings to be configured, maybe you could find a sleep mode that would work.
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Thatâs about the same conclusion that I came to.
Iâm throwing in the towel
I donât accept that it wouldnât have it built in, as it a more powerful gaming laptop, more desktop replacement than laptop⊠and lives on the charger most of the time for users
Not to mention reading reports of others with similar laptops from the same manufacturer eventually getting it work
But I accept that something is out of wack and itâs so hidden Iâll never find it
I think you have to consider the entire reasoning behind wol in the first place. Initially wol was meant as a server only feature for remote power outage recovery. It wasnât in desktops at all at first.
Then large companies began to ask Dell and HP and the like for this feature because boot up times were so bad that people were leaving their computers on, wasting power and money. With scheduled sleep and shutdown routines and group policies, desktops could be power managed at night and booted up in the morning prior to arrival of the workforce. I helped implement this in certain areas of Boeing when I worked IT there in the 90s.
Considering wol was never intended to be a home user feature, itâs possible that the simple power circuitry required to keep the pci bus powered (and as a consequence the NIC) when fully shut down was simply not put into the laptop hardware, even though the nic itself does support it. No link light means no power at the NIC.
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This is one of those things I would fall into a doom searching pit researching why