Enable Wake-On-LAN – (Intel NUC)

To enable Wake-On-LAN on Intel NUC, here are the steps:

1. Go to the BIOS menu, select Power, Performance and Cooling, then Secondary Power Settings, on Wake on LAN from S4/S5, select Power On – Normal Boot.
2. Launch the terminal and follow the command below:
Note:You are required to install ethtool.
$ sudo apt install ethtool

3. Check NIC support for Wake-On-LAN (WOL) and the current status of WOL.

$ sudo ethtool enp114s0




On Supports Wake-On value ends with ‘g’, it means this NIC supports WOL.

On Wake-on value as ‘d’ means WOL is currently disabled. Once WOL is enabled, it will change to 'g'

4. Enable the WOL function on NIC.

$ sudo ethtool -s enp114s0 wol g

5. Make WOL persist after reboot.

$ sudo --preserve-env systemctl edit --force --full wol-enable.service

6. Type in the following content.

[Unit]
Description=Enable Wake-up on LAN
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/sbin/ethtool -s enp114s0 wol g
[Install]
WantedBy=basic.target

7. Reload and enable the service.
   $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   $ sudo systemctl enable wol-enable.service