If the interface is managed by the system

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WOL stops working after booting Ubuntu

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After preparing my P5K Motherboard to recieve WOL Magic Packets, following this tutorial, I shutdown and booted several times to Windows.

The problem happens when I shutdown from Ubuntu.

It simply won't boot.

The output of ethtool eth0 and part of lspci is on pastebin but here are the important parts:

sudo ethtool eth0

        Supports Wake-on: g

        Wake-on: g

            Current message level: 0x0000003f (63)

                                   drv probe link timer ifdown ifup

lspci

2:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet (rev b0)

I must say that if i boot to windows and shutdown without making any changes the WOL works correctly again.

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answered 2 Years ago variark · Accepted Answer

If the interface is managed by the system

If your network interface (eth0 in most cases) is managed via /etc/network/interfaces you could avoid running ethtool before every shutdown by following this guide.

If the interface is managed by NetworkManager

If eth0 is managed by Network Manager, the simplest way is to add the ethtool -s eth0 wol g command in an if-up.d script.

Here is a quick example that you could put in /etc/network/if-up.d/eth0-wol and make the script executable: sudo chmod +x /etc/network/if-up.d/eth0-wol :

#!/bin/sh



ETHTOOL=/sbin/ethtool

[ -x "$ETHTOOL" ] || exit 0

[ "$IFACE" != "lo" ] || exit 0



WOL="g"

"$ETHTOOL" -s "$IFACE" wol "$WOL"

exit 0