Wake On LAN not working

[jtpjr]

Hi all,

 

Last week I tried setting up WoL (Wake over LAN) over my LAN to be able to turn my laptop on remotely and use a remote terminal from my main PC. The remote terminal works fine, as I have forwarded port 22 for SSH. However, I have enabled WoL in the BIOS and my laptop's NIC does support it, and I forwarded the default WoL port (9) over a broadcast IP (192.168.1.255). But, when I send a magic packet over the broadcast IP, my main PC receives the message for my laptop's MAC address, but my laptop does not turn on. My only logical conclusion is that since it is a laptop and not a desktop, it does not constantly supply power to the NIC to be able to see and receive the magic packet in order to turn on. Am I doing anything wrong? 

 

Thanks,

jtpjr

[vorticalbox]

have you enabled wake on lan in the device management?

 

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/enable-wake-on-lan-windows-10/

[jtpjr]

Just now, vorticalbox said:

have you enabled wake on lan in the device management?

 

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/enable-wake-on-lan-windows-10/

I completely forgot to mention that the laptop was running debian, and after running

sudo ethtool eth0

the output was

Wake-on: g

and g stands for support for magic packet. Sorry for the confusion.

[afranco]

Wol can also work in Port 7 have you tried port forwarding that also?