comet424 Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 (edited) im running an ASus Board.. as my backup server its set in the BIOS for WOL as i want to have my main server tower turn on backup server and shut down each night what i finding is when i turn off backupserver from power button or from the gui.. it turns off the Network card light.. and you can no longer WOL... you need to turn off the power switch , or unplug power and replug it in and the BIOS will re activate the WOL feature.. is there something i need to do for asus board to stop it.. and keep the WOL feature alive in the bios? and the board is is ASUS prime a320m-k with cheap cpu in there. cant remember at the moment is it an AMD issue? its turning off oh and i did add to the GO file ethtool -s eth0 wol g but it keeps resetting to "d" for wol on reboot.. what is d? is there a config file to delete or like windows uninstall network card then re plug it back in to fix the issue Edited June 10, 2021 by comet424 Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Simple solution (although my servers are on 24/7) would be instead of shutting off the server would instead be to sleep them (S3 Sleep plugin) Quote Link to comment
comet424 Posted June 10, 2021 Author Share Posted June 10, 2021 i do have the Plugin and i tried going to Sleep with the Power Button and the ethernet lite shuts off.. but if i type that code ethtool -s eth0 wol g and then power button sleep mode option then the ethernet stays lite up and i can re power it up backup only reason i want to sleep it.. or shut off is it doesnt do anything for 24 hours so at 3am it backs up any thing the needs backuping up from tower's rysnc usually its done in 10min -20min and then i dont need it for another 24 hours so figure dont need to keep it powered on 24/7 but i will if i have to.. which i already do now.. just trying to save electricty.. as in Ontario canada we get bent over for hydro prices Quote Link to comment
GMAsterAU Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 (edited) I am having the exact same issue. when I start motherboard and go into bios, then shutdown, WOL works without issue; somehow the shutdown procedure overwrites the 'Wake-on:' setting of eth0 to 'd'. Did you ever find a permanent solution? I am also finding that the Sleep plugin does not allow me to wake the machine up again, no matter which letter is set for eth0. Update: when setting the controller manually to g with ethtool -s eth0 wol g then I can wake the server from sleep and it retains the setting. Edited March 6, 2022 by GMAsterAU new finding Quote Link to comment
GMAsterAU Posted March 6, 2022 Share Posted March 6, 2022 (edited) On 3/7/2022 at 7:05 AM, GMAsterAU said: I am having the exact same issue. when I start motherboard and go into bios, then shutdown, WOL works without issue; somehow the shutdown procedure overwrites the 'Wake-on:' setting of eth0 to 'd'. Did you ever find a permanent solution? I am also finding that the Sleep plugin does not allow me to wake the machine up again, no matter which letter is set for eth0. Update: when setting the controller manually to g with ethtool -s eth0 wol g then I can wake the server from sleep and it retains the setting. ok for me the (semi)-permanent solution was: set MB BIOS to 'PME wake from S5 state' and add ethtool -s eth0 wol g at the end of the GO file. Now as long as I do unplug the computer I can WOL and shutdown no issues. If I unplug the machine, then I have to manually start it and can proceed from there. Edited March 8, 2022 by GMAsterAU clarification Quote Link to comment
comet424 Posted March 7, 2022 Author Share Posted March 7, 2022 @GMAsterAU no i never i ended up just using the board to play with unraid and Truenas.. which truenas is frustrating me.... i think sometimes if it worked.. it only work if i sleeped unraid... but i havent tried in a while.. and i havent updated to the latest bios but i should retry.. as with this pandemic i couldnt afford another compujter so i just use this one to play with things but i should retest it.. i havent bothered to test it.. or update if it has a 2022 bios update if there is one Quote Link to comment
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