October 30, 20196 yr Hi, I have recently built a system and got everything up and running, and am now trying to manage sleep/wake. Unraid: v6.7.2 Mobo: Asrock FM2A78M-ITX+ Onboard NIC: Atheros AR8171 CPU: AMD A10 5800K I'm using Dynamix S3 Sleep to sleep my unraid box when not in use and would now like to enable wake on LAN. My motherboard (Asrock FM2A78M-ITX+ ) reportedly supports this behaviour and I have enabled this in BIOS, however i cannot enable WOL using ethtool as it is reported as unsupported. root@Bertha:/# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Supported FEC modes: Not reported Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised FEC modes: Not reported Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on MDI-X: Unknown Current message level: 0x000060e4 (24804) link ifup rx_err tx_err hw wol Link detected: yes root@Bertha:/# ethtool -i eth0 driver: alx version: firmware-version: expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:02:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: no supports-eeprom-access: no supports-register-dump: no supports-priv-flags: no root@Bertha:/# ethtool -s eth0 wol g Cannot get current wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported not setting wol Google points to WOL support having been removed from the alx atheros driver in linux kernel: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61651 There's a patch provided to re-enable support in the above thread, however all mentions are more specific to Ubuntu/Debian/Arch (i'm not massively linux fluent). So to questions: Is there a practical way to utilise this patch with Unraid and enable WOL support for my onboard NIC? If not, could I get around this by installing a PCIe NIC with drivers that provide WOL support? Assuming 2: are there any NICs that you could recommended? Aim is to be able to sleep the server when not in use, and be able to wake-on-lan, in order to reduce energy cost. Any more info I can provide, please ask. Thanks
October 31, 20196 yr Community Expert My suggestion would be to look for an Intel-based NIC card. Install it and disable the MB NIC via the BIOS. A quick search on Amazon found this but there are several other Intel based options. https://www.amazon.com/TOTOVIN-Gigabit-Network-Adapter-EXPI9301CT/dp/B07HGXD4F3/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
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