[Solved] Wake-on-Lan Not Working After Hibernating

solamour · Last edited by solamour on Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:09 am; edited 1 time in total

I use uswsusp (Userspace Software Suspend) to put my laptop into hibernation instead of shutting down, because I'm too lazy to open up all my programs whenever I turn on the laptop.

One thing I noticed is that when I fully shutdown (instead of hibernating), Wake-On-Lan works perfectly. But when I hibernate, WOL no longer works, even though the LED light on the ethernet is on.

I had the same problem a while ago, and the solution was not to bring down the network interface.

solamour · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:08 am Post subject:

Apparently RC_DOWN_INTERFACE="no" doesn't work with "/etc/rc.conf". What worked was just bringing up the ethernet before hibernating even if I don't use it. Here is what happened.

I use WiFi most of the time with my laptop, and when I need to use WOL, I connect the ethernet cable and either hibernate or shutdown. Because I don't use the ethernet interface ("eno1"), I made it not to start automatically.