Description of problem: When system is powered down with the poweroff utility, it can't be waked up with the magic packet anymore. This worked fine before on Fedora 14 with kernel 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-3.3.4-5.fc17.i686.PAE How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Shutdown with poweroff 2. Send WoL packet Actual results: System remains powered off Expected results: System powers on Additional info: # lspci 02:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905CX-TX/TX-M Fast Etherlink for PC Management NIC Kernel driver in use: 3c59x # cat /etc/modprobe.d/network.conf options 3c59x global_enable_wol=1 # ethtool eth0 Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: g The NIC is still powered when system powers off
motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8IG1000 http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=1654#sp
Tried with Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+, works. Something wrong with the 3c59x driver?
Found this old conversation: http://osdir.com/ml/linux.drivers.vortex.devel/2005-06/msg00001.html created script with "ifconfig eth0 down" in /lib/systemd/system-shutdown and it works now. So, what is the correct solution for this?
Switching from NetworkManager to network service fixes the problem. On f14 network service were used too. Seems NetworkManager does not use ip tool to bring interface down, it calls nmcli and then exits. Don't know what exactly nmcli does.
So it seems that the NIC doesn't respond to WoL packets when it's been left 'UP'? That seems pretty wrong, though perhaps we can down the interface when NM goes to sleep and up it when we come back. The problem with taking interfaces down is that in that state, they don't do link-detection. That's likely not a problem while sleeping. In any case, I'd like to confirm this is expected behavior for the NIC driver you're using. Like you said, e100 seems fine, but 3c59x seems busted here. This pretty clearly seems like a kernel-side issue given that the interface should be the same between drivers.
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