Hi! Is this the onboard LAN ? First check in BIOS the power related (wake) event settings. The LAN can be hidden under: - LAN/WOL (this one is obvious) - PCI/PCE-E - PMI or similar... - you can try simply enabling all of them (note that some might wake the PC immediately after you put it to sleep) Also note that some mainboard do not support WOL after power loss (like my Asus P5K-E). An important step is how do you put the PC to sleep. Under Windows it is the NIC settings in Device Manager. Under the Power Management tab the "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby." option must be enabled. Then if you shutdown using the Windows system shutdown, the PC should wake on magic packet. Some PCs wake up only after a shutdown like described. If you just pull the plug, or reset and then power off using the power button (before an OS is loaded) it will not work. I haven't set up WOL under Linux for a while, that is why I mentioned Windows first. Unfortunately WOL can be a nightmare to set up, especially on low end (read "not server grade") equipment. On one MB of mine, it only started to work after using some DOS based NIC setup utility found in some dark corner of the Internet. Good luck ! ;-) Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Florian Echtler <floe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:11:53 +0200 Subject: Wake-on-LAN with RTL8111b? > Hello everyone, > > my NIC is slowly driving me crazy. I have an ASUS P5B-VM with an > RTL8111/8168B PCI-X GBit NIC. I'm running 2.6.29 currently, and the card > is working fine, with the sole exception of Wake-on-LAN. I've tried all > sorts of ethtool settings, and the only one that works is "wake on PHY > activity". This is kinda pointless, as the machine wakes up again > immediately after suspending. The rest just doesn't do anything - magic > packet, unicast, whatever. > > Can somebody give me any hint how to fix this without buying a new NIC? > > Yours, Florian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
