Zero 3E Wake-on-Lan

#1

Hi all,

I know that the Radxa Zero 3E supports wake-on-lan (WOL) as mentioned in the ethernet chip documentation, and confirmed by running ethtool. However, I am unable to get WOL to work despite following the instructions here. Recovery from suspend is instant when I plug in a USB peripheral, but magic packets don’t work. I tried both suspending and freezing, but neither work.

Do we have anyone in the community who has gotten WOL to work on the 3E? I am using the b6 release of Debian for this test. Thanks.

#2

WoL on 3E is not supported since the idle power consumption is quite low. Just keep it running all the time.

#3

Thanks for the quick response. Do we know if the reason for not supporting WOL is a hardware or software limitation?

While it’s true that the idle power consumption is low, we run 100s of 3Es for months at a time, idling much of that time – so it adds up.

Btw, I have the same question for the following boards as well:

  • Rock 5C
  • Zero 3W (wireless WOL?)
#4

all the ARM boards I’ve worked with have the same

#5

Just because I was curious and just got a 3E…

# wakeonlan xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Sending magic packet to 255.255.255.255:9 with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
# wakeonlan xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Sending magic packet to 255.255.255.255:9 with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
# wakeonlan -p 7 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Sending magic packet to 255.255.255.255:7 with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

Nope nothing happened, the 3E did not wake up. Given it is likely the Ethernet is bridged over the USB, guess I am not surprised. MAC was redacted of course, but in actual test used the 3E MAC.

#6

For x86 usb can also act as WOL device so hardware support in the CPU/SOC is what’s important here