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Mohammad Zakery
Mohammad Zakery

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Enable Wake On LAN on Debian

#wol #debian #debian11 #debian10

Wake On Lan on Debian

WOL Debian

1.Install ethtool :



sudo apt install ethtool
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2.Checking the Interface :



ip a
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3.Select the interface you want to use. For Example :



enp3s0
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4.Turn wake on lan On Temporarily :



sudo ethtool --change enp3s0 wol g
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5.Check the WOL status of the interface with the following command :



sudo ethtool enp3s0
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6.find the bellow section :



Wake-on: g
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Making wake on lan Permanent

7.find ethtool directory :



which ethtool
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in my os : /usr/sbin/ethtool

8.Create wol.service in /etc/systemd/system/ with the following content.



[Unit]
Description=Enable Wake On Lan

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart = /usr/sbin/ethtool --change enp3s0 wol g

[Install]
WantedBy=basic.target
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9.Enable The Service :



sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable wol.service
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