Wake on Lan

[aviationjames]

I have the MSI Gaming Pro motherboard, and it has the Intel NIC built in. I would like to setup wake on lan, I have enabled it in the BIOS (wake from network card) and in the OS (wake on pattern match, packets, etc). However, in the motherboard settings for the Intel NIC, it says it is not connected as you can see below. What does this mean?

 

[Eniqmatic]

I assume the NIC works OK inside the OS?

[aviationjames]

1 minute ago, Eniqmatic said:

I assume the NIC works OK inside the OS?

Yeah, it all works fine. It did used to show connected in the BIOS, but now it does not and I do not know why

[Eniqmatic]

And although it says disconnected, have you actually tried WoL to see if it works? It could be a bug in the Motherboard's BIOS or something that when you turn WoL on that it reports the status as disconnected. Weird!

[aviationjames]

1 minute ago, Eniqmatic said:

And although it says disconnected, have you actually tried WoL to see if it works? It could be a bug in the Motherboard's BIOS or something that when you turn WoL on that it reports the status as disconnected. Weird!

Yeah, I managed to get it working on Wake on WAN too, but only once. I do not know if this was with it saying disconnected or connected, but nothing works on it now (WoL or WoW)

[Eniqmatic]

1 minute ago, aviationjames said:

Yeah, I managed to get it working on Wake on WAN too, but only once. I do not know if this was with it saying disconnected or connected, but nothing works on it now (WoL or WoW)

Try changing the OS settings back from whatever you did change - it's not usually required to change these. Wonder if it changes the firmware on the NIC and screws up the BIOS.

[aviationjames]

1 minute ago, Eniqmatic said:

Try changing the OS settings back from whatever you did change - it's not usually required to change these. Wonder if it changes the firmware on the NIC and screws up the BIOS.

Okay, erm I kinda forgot what I did haha. Anyway of going back to defaults?

[Eniqmatic]

Hmm OK I would be doubtful its the issue unless there is a BIOS bug of some kind. What motherboard is it? You on the latest BIOS?

[aviationjames]

2 minutes ago, Eniqmatic said:

Hmm OK I would be doubtful its the issue unless there is a BIOS bug of some kind. What motherboard is it? You on the latest BIOS?

msi gaming pro z170. I just updated the BIOS today to 1.9 (latest) and it still says disconnected

[Eniqmatic]

2 minutes ago, aviationjames said:

msi gaming pro z170. I just updated the BIOS today to 1.9 (latest) and it still says disconnected

In the OS, can you try setting the advanced adapter settings to:

Wake on Link settings: Disabled

Wake on Magic Packet: Enabled

Wake on Pattern Match: Enabled

 

Then go across to the "Power Management" tab and untick "Allow this device to wake the computer.

 

Let me know which of these you change (if any!)

[aviationjames]

This is the configuration page for the NIC, it does not have all the options. I disabled Energy Efficient Ethernet. I will now untick all ones in the Wake on Lan options page and see what happens

[aviationjames]

7 minutes ago, Eniqmatic said:

In the OS, can you try setting the advanced adapter settings to:

Wake on Link settings: Disabled

Wake on Magic Packet: Enabled

Wake on Pattern Match: Enabled

 

Then go across to the "Power Management" tab and untick "Allow this device to wake the computer.

 

Let me know which of these you change (if any!)

Still the same result 

[Eniqmatic]

Very odd! Have you tried a different cable incase of pure coincidence? Alternatively is it possible for you to reset the BIOS to defaults to see if this changes the behaviour?

[aviationjames]

1 minute ago, Eniqmatic said:

Very odd! Have you tried a different cable incase of pure coincidence? Alternatively is it possible for you to reset the BIOS to defaults to see if this changes the behaviour?

Yeah, I have. Even done the diagnostic and it says the cable length and all, says it is all okay. Yes, still no result

[Eniqmatic]

Surely at this point it can only be a BIOS bug??

[Eniqmatic]

Can you try and boot from the NIC out of curiosity? I know you won't be able to get anywhere (unless you have a PXE boot server) but if it actually tries to boot then it obviously thinks the cable is detected. Does that make sense?