[ubuntu] Cannot get WoL to work on a Dell Inspiron laptop

Cannot get Wake-on-LAN to work on a Dell Inspiron laptop

Hello, everyone.

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop powered by Ubuntu 9.04 and I'm having trouble to get Wake-on-LAN (WoL) to work.

The hardware is as follows:

NIC: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02).
Motherboard:

Code:

*-core description: Motherboard product: 0KD882 vendor: Dell Inc. physical id: 0 serial: .H15QMB1.CN486436787979. *-firmware description: BIOS vendor: Dell Inc. physical id: 0 version: A06 (06/09/2006) size: 64KiB capacity: 512KiB capabilities: isa pci pcmcia pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp smartbattery biosbootspecification netboot

In the BIOS there's nothing about WoL, but according to ethtool, it IS supported. I have an script that enables WoL on startup and according to the following output, it's certainly enabled:

Code:

gustavo@paris:~$ sudo ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x000000ff (255) Link detected: yes

But no matter how I shut down the computer (e.g., "echo mem > /sys/power/state", "sudo halt", "sudo halt -p", "sudo halt -f -p", "sudo pm-suspend", "sudo pm-hibernate"), it never wakes when I run any of the following commands from another computer in the same home network:

wakeonlan 00:15:c5:a7:f0:19
wakeonlan -p 7 00:15:c5:a7:f0:19
wakeonlan -i 192.168.1.128 00:15:c5:a7:f0:19
wakeonlan -p 7 -i 192.168.1.128 00:15:c5:a7:f0:19

What else can I try to make Wake-on-LAN work on this computer?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Cannot get WoL to work on a Dell Inspiron laptop

OK, I've made some progress: Now at least WoL works on suspend (ACPI mode S3).

Here's what I did:

Find the devices that can resume the computer:

Code:

gustavo@paris:~$ cat /proc/acpi/wakeup Device S-state Status Sysfs node LID S3 *enabled PBTN S4 *enabled PCI0 S3 disabled no-bus:pci0000:00 USB0 S0 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.0 USB1 S0 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.1 USB2 S0 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.2 USB3 S0 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.3 EHCI S0 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.7 AZAL S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1b.0 PCIE S4 disabled pci:0000:00:1e.0 RP01 S4 disabled pci:0000:00:1c.0 RP02 S3 disabled RP03 S3 disabled RP04 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1c.3 RP05 S3 disabled RP06 S3 disabled

Find which of those devices is my Ethernet card:

Code:

gustavo@paris:~$ lspci -tv -[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub +-02.0 Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller +-02.1 Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller +-1b.0 Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller +-1c.0-[0000:0b]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN +-1c.3-[0000:0c-0d]-- +-1d.0 Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 +-1d.1 Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 +-1d.2 Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 +-1d.3 Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 +-1d.7 Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller +-1e.0-[0000:03]--+-00.0 Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX | +-01.0 Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller | +-01.1 Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter | +-01.2 Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter | \-01.3 Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller +-1f.0 Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge +-1f.2 Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller \-1f.3 Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller

Enable it for WoL (it is "PCIE" in my case):

Code:

sudo sh -c "echo PCIE > /proc/acpi/wakeup"

Then it should be enabled for WoL:

Code:

gustavo@paris:~$ cat /proc/acpi/wakeup Device S-state Status Sysfs node LID S3 *enabled PBTN S4 *enabled PCI0 S3 enabled no-bus:pci0000:00 USB0 S0 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.0 USB1 S0 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.1 USB2 S0 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.2 USB3 S0 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.3 EHCI S0 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.7 AZAL S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1b.0 PCIE S4 enabled pci:0000:00:1e.0 RP01 S4 disabled pci:0000:00:1c.0 RP02 S3 disabled RP03 S3 disabled RP04 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1c.3 RP05 S3 disabled RP06 S3 disabled

Finally, suspend it:

Code:

sudo pm-suspend

And "wake" it from another device on your network:

Code:

wakeonlan -i $IP-Address-Of-Your-Suspended-Computer $MAC-Address-Of-Your-NIC

Now the challenge is to make it work with hibernation and soft off.

HTH.

Re: Cannot get Wake-on-LAN to work on a Dell Inspiron laptop

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gustavo Narea

Hello, everyone.

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop powered by Ubuntu 9.04 and I'm having trouble to get Wake-on-LAN (WoL) to work.

I know very little about wake on lan, but I was looking into it (want to set it up myself) and as far as I know, you should:

run "ethtool -s eth0 wol g" to enable the wake-on-magic-packet on the computer that you want to wake up remotely.

run "etherwake [macaddress]" from another computer to wake the computer.

I also think you have to run "ethtool -s eth0 wol g" every time you turn on your computer, otherwise it will only wake up once (in other words that setting is volatile).

As I said, this can be inaccurate because I just started looking into it myself. However, I hope it can help somehow.

EDIT: seen you're making progress... never mind