ApexDE Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Hi! I recently had to switch my 8139 NIC to a 8169 NIC cause of Sleep problems (System sometimes did hang with Screen off but fans running when going to Sleep) After the NIC Upgrade my System does Sleep without issues But: Wake on Lan doesn't work anymore. When the System is off or sleeping, the NIC is turned off completely, the LAN Port LED on the Router is switched off, meaning there is no connection. With the 8139, the LAN Port stayed on and WOL did work with the magic packet. After some googling i found out that the 8169 needs to be initialized for WOL by the Networkdriver. I guess the stock Appledriver doesn't do this. On Linux there is a tool called ethtool to do this. Wake-on-lan is ticked in the Energysaver prefpanel. There is a Driver from Reatltek, RTG 2.03, but only for Leopard, i am using SnowLeopard. Anyone has made WOL to work with this NIC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potter 1984 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Hello ApexDE, I have Exactly the same problem, and alas as of yet have found no working solution, but im sure with more of us working on this annoyance, we can "Crack" the problem. If you have any updates please let us all know. Cheers brover!!, :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollee23 Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Same problem for me with a R8168 NIC. Other threads I'm following on this topic are : http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=190595 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=29436 Still searching ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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