Open johnnicponski opened 4 years ago
ciampix
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4 years ago Did you try and successfully wake you computer up with something else (i.e. a linux machine) just to be sure that actually is a WakeOnLan fault and not simply that is your computer that is "dumb" to WOL packets?
nec14e
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4 years ago try for the check to disable windows firewall
basildane
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4 years ago If you shutdown laptop B, the NIC light should continue blinking to indicate it is listening for WOL messages. Can you check that?
johnnicponski
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4 years ago @basildane I think this laptop doesn't have any NIC light. I have LEDs that indicate Power, ON/OFF, and accessing hard drive, but no NIC. Edit: I am wrong, it DOES have NIC lights and I just never noticed them. Whoops. When I put the laptop B to sleep, the light does not blink, even if the LAN cable is plugged in. It does blink when the laptop is active. Does that mean my laptop cannot perform WOL?
@nec14e I believe I have, but I will try again, hold for update. Edit: I did try completely disabling the firewall, no difference.
@ciampix I hadn't considered that. I will try with my mac. Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. The pc I was trying to use to send the wake up signal had a defect and I had to send it back. I just got the new one. Edit: I tried waking from my mac, no difference. It will not wake up.
Moopere
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4 years ago Some very modern machines won't necessarily leave a blinking light on the ethernet port when they are off but listening on the network. Its a real PITA to fault find WOL issues.
However, I'd say its a bad sign that there are no WOL options in the BIOS. In 99% of cases this is likely to point to there being no WOL capability on the laptop.
Some other things to note:
Driver is really important. I can't tell you the number of intel and realtek drivers that, despite having a full 'power management' tab don't WOL after a G3 PME (ie, power lost or physically turned off at the wall, then back on again). Change the driver (randomly) to a newer or older version and bang, it all works as it should. I'm even running Win7 drivers on some Win10 machines to regain this functionality
If you are running ethernet to your laptop through any sort of USB dongle then all bets are off. This almost never works despite any amount of fiddling about with PME settings at the USB hub level or the dongle or the Win10 level or the BIOS level (wake on USB...just doesn't work usually). Almost all USB based docking stations have the exact same problem
Wake from Sleep, rather than hibernate or off (S5) seems variable to me. Seems very very driver related. Chances are high if you are currently being unsuccessful that the sleep state is depowering the NIC. There might be settings for this in the BIOS?
Try WOL from hibernate, or from S5 (soft power down). It'll probably be the same, but its worth a try
So I have the software installed in current laptop (windows 10) and the laptop I want to wakeup (Laptop B, win10). When Laptop B is on, the software can see that it is online, and if a send a wake up packet, laptop B can detect it under the listener tab. In Labtop B I have enabled wol under my internet adaptor (There is no option for it under my bios) I don't have hybrid mode/quick startup enabled. As far as I can tell by myself, there is no reason it shouldn't wake up, but it doesn't. (I am trying to wake from sleep btw)
If you are willing to help, thanks in advance. Just let me know what info you need and I will reply with it.