Things were great until I noticed that my computer was waking up on its own every night after I went to bed and put it to sleep. In my case, the only relevant setting (and maybe not even that, since I only use WoWLAN with state S3 (sleep), not S4 (hibernate) nor S5 (soft-off)) was S4/S5 Wake on LAN.įor the second step I went to Device Manager, double-clicked my wireless card under “Network Adapters”, and made sure that Wake on Magic Packet and Wake on Pattern Match were set to Enabled in the Advanced Settings tab and that “Allow this device to wake up the computer” and “Only allow a magic packet to wake up the computer” were checked in the Power Management tab.Īnd voilà! I was immediately able to put my computer to sleep, and wake it up with a Wake-on-LAN packet sent through the WiFi. Some people might not be able to complete this if their motherboard/NIC/BIOS doesn’t support WoWLAN, and in that case there’s not much to be done other than changing hardware (or making sure it’s not just a missing BIOS update, which it probably isn’t). The first step was about looking for the appropriate settings in my BIOS, and setting them to the correct values.
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