Wake On Lan

[Tophellcat]

I recently built a server. When purchasing the Motherboard, I thought it came with WOL capability. Now that I have the server built, I can not find the option in the BIOS. My question is, does anyone know of a PCIe card I can install that would get me to WOL capabilities?

 

Supermicro mbd-x10sra-0

Intel E5-1650-V4

32 gigs of DDR4 ECC memory at 2400mhz

550 watt power supply

1 gig Sata SSD

[10leej]

Pretty sure it wont exist.

[OhioYJ]

@Tophellcat Disabling EUP doesn't make WOL function?

[Tophellcat]

4 minutes ago, OhioYJ said:

@Tophellcat Disabling EUP doesn't make WOL function?

I am not sure. I am new to this part of computers.

[OhioYJ]

2 minutes ago, Tophellcat said:

I am not sure. I am new to this part of computers.

Try that. I took a quick look at your manual and that is my initial guess. Not all boards just say "WOL". Even when you add a card you may not get a "WOL" option to enable it. I have some boards where it's obvious, some not so obvious. 

[Nick7]

Which OS are you running?

 

If linux, check with 'ethtool' if it's supported. You should get a lines like:

Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g

 

If it's missing 'g' for 'wake-on', it will not work.

I had to add udev rule with following line to enable wake on LAN on my Linux server:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", NAME=="enp*", RUN+="/usr/bin/ethtool -s $name wol g"

 

After that, you can wake Linux server with WoL (magic packet).

[Tophellcat]

On 1/16/2023 at 7:42 PM, OhioYJ said:

Try that. I took a quick look at your manual and that is my initial guess. Not all boards just say "WOL". Even when you add a card you may not get a "WOL" option to enable it. I have some boards where it's obvious, some not so obvious. 

So if it has EUP, I should disable it?

[Tophellcat]

On 1/17/2023 at 4:15 AM, Nick7 said:

Which OS are you running?

 

If linux, check with 'ethtool' if it's supported. You should get a lines like:

Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g

 

If it's missing 'g' for 'wake-on', it will not work.

I had to add udev rule with following line to enable wake on LAN on my Linux server:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", NAME=="enp*", RUN+="/usr/bin/ethtool -s $name wol g"

 

After that, you can wake Linux server with WoL (magic packet).

I am running Windows 10 Pro

[OhioYJ]

7 hours ago, Tophellcat said:

So if it has EUP, I should disable it?

When I briefly looked at your manual it appears that may make WOL work. That is what I would try. You should have that option in there. From what I read that appears to be at least part of the puzzle.

[jaslion]

3 hours ago, OhioYJ said:

When I briefly looked at your manual it appears that may make WOL work. That is what I would try. You should have that option in there. From what I read that appears to be at least part of the puzzle.

And if not you can just buy a remote trigger power button. Those are funnily enough basically always more reliable than a wol feature.

 

Unless you have a management engine always running like hp, dell,... has

[Tophellcat]

13 hours ago, OhioYJ said:

When I briefly looked at your manual it appears that may make WOL work. That is what I would try. You should have that option in there. From what I read that appears to be at least part of the puzzle.

The motherboard does have an EuP option. I disabled it. I did try to send a secret packet (could have said the wrong thing) and it still did not work. 

[baronvonsatchel]

Sometimes the BIOS option won't be named "wake on LAN," on my Asus motherboards it's called "power on by PCIe devices." You need to turn that on. You can also use a network traffic monitoring program on the computer you're trying to wake to verify that it's receiving the magic packets (ensuring that you have the correct MAC address and port).

[m9x3mos]

On 1/19/2023 at 8:33 AM, jaslion said:

And if not you can just buy a remote trigger power button. Those are funnily enough basically always more reliable than a wol feature.

 

Unless you have a management engine always running like hp, dell,... has

I was just looking for one of those as I had my machine lock up on me while in another state. Do you have a recommendation or a Amazon link to one? I couldn't find any that work over VPN they all used like car remotes.