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cadaeib

Member

Registered: 2015-03-31

Posts: 7

Enable wake on wireless lan

I can't get wowlan to work.

 hwinfo 

says, I have an Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter and I found out with some googling that wowlan is supported by this device. Still

 iw phy phy0 info 

does not show anything wowlan-related, and accordingly,

 iw phy phy0 wowlan show 

and 

 iw phy phy0 wowlan enable 

don't work:

 command failed: Operation not supported (-95) 

Thanks for your help

beta990

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Registered: 2011-07-10

Posts: 207

Re: Enable wake on wireless lan

Even if the hardware supports it, the module also need to support it.

About WoL:
- It's them hard to get it to work for some devices
- BIOS may need a bit of tweaking
- Not 100% reliable, better of with a low powered device

cadaeib

Member

Registered: 2015-03-31

Posts: 7

Re: Enable wake on wireless lan

I'm not sure, what a module is, but the way you said it makes it sound like it's a thing I can't do much about Thank you though

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: Enable wake on wireless lan

According to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath9k, ath9k module supports wowlan.

cadaeib

Member

Registered: 2015-03-31

Posts: 7

Re: Enable wake on wireless lan

That sounds good. Do you have an idea why I can't enable it the way I wrote before?

I already checked the bios and didn't find anything. There are also guides for windows 7 on the web for similar devices that don't involve entering the bios.