WOL not identified, Supermicro MB with Intel NIC

[booleeny]

Hello,
i have a standard embedded 9.2.0.1 - Shigawire (revision 972) setup with an Supermicro X10SLL-F Mainboard http://www.supermicro.com/products/moth ... SLL_-F.cfm having 2 onboard LAN ports (+1 extra for IPMI).
The network card has Advanced Power Management (APM) including Wake on LAN (WOL) functionality. There is no BIOS setting for WOL but should be enabled by default.

when i run

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kuemand: ~ # ifconfig -m
em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=4019b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO>
        capabilities=5019b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO>
        ether 0c:c4:7a:0e:70:e9
        inet 192.168.178.31 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        supported media:
                media autoselect
                media 1000baseT
                media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
                media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
                media 100baseTX
                media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
                media 10baseT/UTP

no WOL flag is shown and under Network > LAN Management no WOL option is present.

When i try to wake up the shutdown NAS nothing happens.

I followed this howto:
http://n4f.siftusystems.com/index.php/2 ... /comments/ with an positive result updating the driver but after restarting the WOL option is still not present. Any ideas?

[booleeny]

Still could not get it running but now i use ipmiutil http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/ from windows machine with a batch script at startup. So the result is the same for me and no support needed any longer. If anybody needs a howto for windows x64 8.1 and ipmiutil, please leave a message.

[Oranjoose]

@booleeny

Hey, I've got just about the exact same issue. Virtually same motherboard, tried same things. I'm guessing more will have our issue, so please elucidate the workaround WOL solution that you've discovered.

Thanks!

[booleeny]

Hi, ok i skipped WOL at all and used the IPMI function of the motherboard. I'm using Win 8.1 x64 and first downloaded and installed ipmiutil (ipmiutil-2.9.5-win64.zip ) http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/. So dowload the tool, extract it and click on the install.cmd. A new directory C:\Program Files\sourceforge\ipmiutil is created with the tools inside. A new PATH entry is created. If the script does not work (or copies the wrong stuff inside the folder do it manually).



To test ipmiutil open a cmd promt an see if it is installed correctly.



Try to startup NAS by using command promt (Use the IP of the Mainboard, NOT your NAS IP. I have now 2 cables connected. 1 for the NAS OS LAN and the other one for the mainboard BMC/IPMI):



Write a batch script. My example (startnas.cmd):

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@echo off
mode con lines=21 cols=81
COLOR 0A
echo --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo -                                                                              -
echo -                    Waking \\kuemand NAS if not ON already.                   -
echo -                                                                              -
echo --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
start "title" /B ireset -u -N 192.168.178.30 -U ADMIN -P ADMIN
ping -n 15 localhost > NUL 
EXIT

The ping -n option is just for keeping the window open for a few seconds-

Shutdown script is nearly the same:

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@echo off
mode con lines=21 cols=81
COLOR 0A
echo --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo -                                                                              -
echo -                    Shutting down \\kuemand NAS:    NOW                       -
echo -                                                                              -
echo --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
start "title" /B ireset -D -N 192.168.178.30 -U ADMIN -P ADMIN exit
ping -n 15 localhost > NUL 
EXIT

Add this as a new sheduled task (Aufgabenplanung in German) so that it starts when your PC is starting or waking from sleep mode.


Now every time your PC starts or wakes up from sleep mode your batch script is started and wakes up you NAS via the ipmiutil and your batch script. To shut it down i am using the manageacpi sccript from user fritz.

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[Oranjoose]

@booleeny

Thank you for the clear and helpful post. However, while I have the same motherboard as yours, mine is not the -F version, so it doesn't have a dedicated IPMI port. It sounds like your method would have worked like a charm too, *sigh*.

Is there no other way around this issue?

[booleeny]

I think the Mainboard itself has wol capability. it has something to do with the openBSD OS.