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  • As I stated earlier, I’ve turned off all power saving settings in the OS, BIOS and NIC driver settings. You cannot add a NIC to a micro form factor PC. Below is a list of all power saving settings in the Intel NIC drivers that I have disabled: * Energy Efficient Ethernet * Link Speed Battery Saver * Reduce Speed on Power…
  • I never mentioned having an add-on card :-) I have tested with three different PC's. All with onboard Intel NICs. None of the PC's can WOL when connected to the SFP ports but they all wake when connected to the regular ports on the switch. PC's tested are Dell Optiplex:* 9010 SFF (82579LM) * 7050 MFF (I219-V) * 7070 MFF…
  • Yes, BIOS is set to allow WOL for LAN/WLAN. There's no WOL setting for PCI-Express in the BIOS.
  • I have toggled off all power/speed saving settings within the NIC settings, including the one mentioned above. I have also disabled all power saving options in the operating system and BIOS. I'm still not able to get WOL working with the SFP ports.
  • Thank you. I have Intel NIC, not Realtek. I checked for similar setting but did not find any. I updated the driver and found a new setting named, "ReduceSpeedOnPowerDown". I disabled it because that setting is the equivalent of the Realtek setting for which you previously described but that did not help. Is there another…
  • Response I got from SFP transceiver manufacturer: With the Ethernet cable plugged into one of the SFP transceivers, I get one solid light on the NIC, in the PC, when it sleeps and WOL does not work. On the switch, if I move the cable from the SFP transceiver to any of the regular ports, I get a solid light and the second…
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