Wake over LAN WOL dietpi x86 pc

I want wake over lan (WOL)for my Dietpi PC. in past that pc windows was installed & i was able to wake up that computer from android APP while it was sleeping. last week i have format that pc & install dietpi. my android phone app now not able to wake that pc. In mother board/Bios side i have not change anything so that pc is wol compatible as it was working in past. please guide me what change i have to made in pc so that it can wake up via WOL through android mobile app. what packages are missing which not allow dietpi X86 pc not to wake up from sleep mode.

thanks

Hi,

maybe you can have a look into this article WakeOnLan - Debian Wiki

I guess you need to add ethernet-wol g into /etc/network/interfaces as we use ifupdown

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Thanks, my system start using WOL, the command i gave as

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0

save these words in eth0 file

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
        ethernet-wol g

& reboot system & system boot with WOL commands, thanks @Joulinar

Awesome, I didnā€™t know that one, and so easy. Iā€™ll put it on the list for dietpi-network to be available as GUI option when I find time to finish it.

Docs: WakeOnLan - Debian Wiki
Requires ethtool package, but itā€™s pre-installed on DietPi for link speed and debugging already.

@MichaIng but there would need to be a check, to verify if the feature is supported by the system.

Yes, the ethtool output contains this info.

Is any thing change with this configuration. my working WOL system stop since last week. i have not changed anything. in past WOL working fine. i just gave ā€œapt-get updateā€ ā€œapt-get upgradeā€ commands also installed & uninstall docker cli & docker-compose via dietpi-software. this setup working fine before but now with this computer is not wakeup via WOL. my system is working headless so no change in BIOS etc.

I guess the updated packages broke something. What did you update?

only update system via standard commands ā€œapt-get updateā€ ā€œapt-get upgradeā€ & i have install docker & docker compose & then uninstall it. is any linux command verify the WOL system or needed packages working /available or not?

these commands gives following results

root@DietPi:/etc/network#  networkctl list
WARNING: systemd-networkd is not running, output will be incomplete.

IDX LINK  TYPE     OPERATIONAL SETUP
  1 lo    loopback n/a         unmanaged
  2 eth0  ether    n/a         unmanaged
  3 wlan0 wlan     n/a         unmanaged 
root@DietPi:/etc/network# ifquery eth0
ethernet-wol: g
address: 192.168.1.90
netmask: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 192.168.1.254
broadcast: 192.168.1.255 
 root@DietPi:/etc/network# ethtool
ethtool: bad command line argument(s)
For more information run ethtool -h

You could have a look to official docs WakeOnLan - Debian Wiki

Dietpi is using ifupdown.

root@DietPi:~# sudo ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP    MII ]
        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 Receive-only
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
        Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Full
                                             100baseT/Full
                                             1000baseT/Full
        Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Link partner advertised FEC modes: Not reported
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Auto-negotiation: on
        master-slave cfg: preferred slave
        master-slave status: slave
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: external
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: pumbg
        Wake-on: g
        Link detected: yes

https://dpaste.org/LXpDX

Did you tried and ran ethtool -h to see more info?

yes it is giving hundreds line

root@DietPi:~# ethtool -h
ethtool version 5.9
Usage:
        ethtool [ --debug MASK ][ --json ] DEVNAME      Display standard information about device
        ethtool [ --debug MASK ][ --json ] -s|--change DEVNAME  Change generic options
                [ speed %d ]
                [ duplex half|full ]
                [ port tp|aui|bnc|mii|fibre|da ]
                [ mdix auto|on|off ]
                [ autoneg on|off ]
                [ advertise %x[/%x] | mode on|off ... [--] ]
                [ phyad %d ] 

Can you provide: ethtool -i eth0 ?
And what happens when you do:

sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol g
root@DietPi:~# ethtool -i eth0
driver: r8169
version: 5.10.0-18-amd64
firmware-version: rtl8411-1_0.0.3 06/18/12
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:02:00.2
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no
root@DietPi:~# sudo ethtool -s eth0 wol g
root@DietPi:~#

Ok no output at all, I would take this as ā€œit workedā€?! :smiley:
This command basically activated WOL mode g on eth0, like it was already before. I just wanted to get sureā€¦
You can reboot the machine and try if it works no, but I think not since we didnā€™t change anything.

Hm this looks all fine, my only idea left is to check the LAN cable / physical connections.