SOLVED: Wake on lan disabled every reboot

[mm1992]

I used to have my computer set to wake on lan. Recently (well, sometime within the past few months. For a while I was using a laptop to bridge wifi to ethernet and assumed that was the issue, but now I'm plugged into an orbi satellite) the wake on lan has gotten disabled. I checked BIOS, and there is nothing there to enable/disable it. Some googling led me to

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myles@Myles-PC:~$ sudo ethtool enp3s0 | grep Wake-on
	Supports Wake-on: pumbg
	Wake-on: d

so I run this:

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myles@Myles-PC:~$ ethtool -s enp3s0 wol g

And then I get this:

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myles@Myles-PC:~$ sudo ethtool enp3s0 | grep Wake-on
	Supports Wake-on: pumbg
	Wake-on: g

It works then, until I reboot. Then it goes back to how it was before. So I tried "sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces" and adding the "ethtool enp3s0 | grep Wake-on" as the last line in that file. That didn't work. How do I enable WOL to be enabled after every reboot?

[rene]

I believe that the correct way these days, certainly a way, is creating as root a file e.g. /etc/systemd/system/wol@.service consisting of

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[Unit]
Description=Wake-on-LAN (%i)
Requires=network.target
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/sbin/ethtool -s %i wol g
Type=oneshot

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

and enabling it via systemctl enable wol@enp3s0.

Ubuntu has switched to different network-management infrastructure ("netplan") than Mint so it's a little messy. The new stuff might have another and more native method available but certainly this would work anywhere.

[mm1992]

Thank you, that did the trick.

[Shardann]

Thank you rene, it worked for me too..

[Charlymint]

Thx a lot !!

Worked like a charm...

Charly