Wake on Lan Win10 Not Working

[RowlandoGloom]

Hi,

 

I have a problem where WOL functionality has stopped working on Windows 10. Enabling different shutdown states and magic packet making etc. does not work as Google suggests.

 

This is a Realtek NIC which uses the default built in Windows 10 driver. Manually installing the Win7/8 driver rectifies the problem.

 

Is there a way to "force" the older driver to be installed or do I have to manually change it on 400 PCs?

 

Cheers,

Paul.

[SHimmer45]

Does the 10 driver have an option for WoL in device manager as it might be present but is set to disabled

[RowlandoGloom]

Even when the options are set in Device Manager it doesn't work.

Sometimes they're not even visible.

As I say, the only driver that will work is the Win7 one.

Win8.1 didn't by default have it built in (don't quote me on that) so needed installing.

Win10 has the driver included but a newer version.

[IrritableTech]

Even when the options are set in Device Manager it doesn't work.

Sometimes they're not even visible.

As I say, the only driver that will work is the Win7 one.

Win8.1 didn't by default have it built in (don't quote me on that) so needed installing.

Win10 has the driver included but a newer version.

 

Try turning off all the eco power saving options in the NIC driver advanced settings. Don't allow the OS to power it down in power management either.

[RowlandoGloom]

Been there, done that haha.

 

Even disabled fast startup 'HiberbootEnabled' = 0 in registry and power options.

 

Windows has been told not to turn it off, it's been told to allow the the magic packet to wake it up etc to no avail.

 

I had two machines setup exactly the same, one with the old driver, one with the new. The one with the old driver worked grrrr.

 

I think I may need to remove the built-in one (if you can with built-in drivers?) from the WIM and inject the old one.

[alfatec]

We had the same problem and found that on newer ASUS motherboards there is a Fast startup option that had to be disabled. Also with Windows 10 I found that I had to enable PME in the BIOS as well as WOL.

[RowlandoGloom]

Cheers for the updates.

 

I think I've sussed it.

 

The Windows 7 driver (7.052.0203.2012) (from Realtek's site) works with all versions of Windows and WOL works

The pre-installed driver, (9.1.402.2015) (included with Windows 10) does NOT work with WOL.

The newer Windows 10 driver (10.10.714.2016) (from Realtek's site) does work with WOL.

 

It looks like as MS technically dropped support for WOL, they've removed it from their own driver package. The newer driver includes it again.

 

The zip file downloaded from Realtek's site has a silent_install.bat file and setup can be run as "setup.exe /s" to install the driver automatically.

 

Good old MS.

 

Web page with driver

[free780]

How are folks dealing with Intel NICs ? Particularly with older PCs. Intel's site won't have official Windows 10 drivers so you have to go through Windows Update and export. However WOL isn't supported.

[RowlandoGloom]

How are folks dealing with Intel NICs ? Particularly with older PCs. Intel's site won't have official Windows 10 drivers so you have to go through Windows Update and export. However WOL isn't supported.

 

You could try a Win7/8 driver and see whether it works.