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Wake On LAN (WOL) is a facility for powering on a computer by sending a specially-crafted packet to one of its network cards.

Wake-on-LAN (WOL) is an Ethernet computer networking standard that allows a computer to be turned on or woken up by a network message.

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How to enable Wake On Lan (WOL) in Ubuntu 16.04

How to enable Wake On Lan (WOL) in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?
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How can I enable wake-on-lan permanently?

I want to enable wake-on-lan for my network cards, for always. The community guide recommends adding the relevant command to /etc/network/interfaces. In past experiences editing Ubuntu conf files, it's extremely likely that the network interface…
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Power Management - Sleep / Wake up Server when accessed

I have a headless HP Proliant Microserver with ubuntu installed. This machine has samba shares on it serving media and I usually rdp or ssh into it. Now my issue is I want the machine to go into sleep mode(so the state is saved from ram to the…
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How could I shutdown a remote host, in my network thru ssh, with a local host?

The question is simple. What would be the script I would have to use to shut down a computer in my network thru ssh. Normaly i would go to command line and: ssh desktop delik@desktop's password: delik@desktop:~$ sudo shutdown -P 0 To power on I…
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Trouble with wakeonlan with Ubuntu 20.04

I've followed the instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WakeOnLan but i'm having difficulty getting it working. My BIOS is enabled for wake on lan and i've been able to do it using windows hibernate/sleep with the same NIC.
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Wake On Lan not working

I have been trying to get Wake On Lan to work on my Ubuntu server (14.04.1 LTS), which I have configured as a home NAS box. I have followed several tutorials to try to get this working, but for some reason, which I can't trace, it is not…
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Wake-on-lan under Ubuntu 12.04

I would like to setup the wake-on-lan, the two PCs are connected through a switch. Here is the configuration of the eth0, in the BIOS I couldn't find any information regarding the wake-on-lan. Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: …
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Wake-on-LAN quit working with latest kernel (Bionic)

WOL was working great on Bionic until yesterday's kernel update. How to diagnose/recover it? Edit: if set to boot from 4.15.0-23 kernel it works. If set to boot from 4.15.0-24 it does not. Edit2: WoL can be enabled with sudo ethtool -s [card] wol…
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How to wake my PC with any packet, not just a magic packet?

Currently, I can wake my PC by sending a magic packet from another device on the LAN. However, the PC will not power on when I send the packet from outside the network (WAN), even though I have my router instructed to forward UDP traffic on port 9…
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On shutdown, computer reboots when started via wake on lan

Here's the situation: I start my main computer from another pc via wake on lan "wakeonlan ". All works fine. When I'm done doing what I did, I run "sudo shutdown -h now" (in the ssh terminal in which I was working) to shutdown the computer. But…
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Wake on LAN not working if I turn off with ubuntu

I'm dual-booting Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10. If I turn off my computer with Windows, I can turn it back on using WOL. However, if I turn it off using Ubuntu the computer won't turn back on if I use WOL. Is there a way of fixing this? Following…
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Wake-on-LAN worked 3 times then no more

Update: My main theories for now are (see below for details): Ubuntu system shuts down NIC power in standby mode? Realtek RTL8111 driver for 64-bit machines does not work? Can anyone confirm or deny? I installed Ubuntu 12.04 a few days ago and…
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Wake on WLAN (WoWLAN) only works from freeze

I set up Wake on WLAN for my PCIe wireless card with the command sudo iw phy0 wowlan enable magic-packet disconnect. This also runs on every boot. Confirming that it is indeed enabled with sudo iw phy0 wowlan show returns the below. WoWLAN is…
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How do I enable Wake on LAN with Ubuntu?

I have already enabled everything in BIOS, so the problem, I believe, is with Ubuntu. I tried using the steps here but I had the following problems: There was no tlp file in /etc/default/, however I tried creating "tlp" and adding the code…
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Node in MAAS not waking up on LAN

I am trying to add nodes in MAAS cluster. I setup MAAS Server in VM using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I completed the post-install tasks like installing MAAS, configure network, DHCP-DNS, creating logins, importing boot images as explained here:…
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