What do you enable/disable Wireless Wake On LAN/Wake on Wifi/Wake on Wireless LAN so that a magic packet can wake the server/PC up?
asked Nov 21, 2019 at 20:41
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Please note that not all WiFi cards or Linux drivers support the WoWLAN feature.
First of all, let's find the Wireless Interface with iw list, iw dev and note it down (I'll assume it's the default phy0 from this point on)
Enabling WoWLAN
sudo iw phy0 wowlan enable magic-packet (you can also specify on disconnect (you write only disconnect) to enable that function)
Disable WoWLAN
sudo iw phy0 wowlan disable
Determine status of WoWLAN
iw phy0 wowlan show
More info
man iw
iw --help
answered Nov 21, 2019 at 20:41
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Having just for the first time tried this, everything goes without error and positive 'WoWLAN is enabled' output. But no response on
wakeonlan <MAC>. Perhaps answer could confirm tooling to wake-up per wifi is the same as ethernet.– mpeCommented Feb 16, 2022 at 17:05 -
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1@mpe I had the same issue and found that I had to use
wakeonlan -i=<ip> <MAC>, without setting the ip addresswakeonlanwould use the wrong one. Commented Mar 11 at 15:13