How can I boot my desktop using Wake-on-LAN?

I am trying to get Wake-on-LAN (WoL) to work on my desktop. It has an Asus P6T Deluxe v2 motherboard and I have successfully enabled the WoL option within the BIOS power management . The desktop is currently configured as a dual boot of Windows 7 and Arch Linux. On Windows 7 I am able to boot using WoL, but on my Arch Linux I only got resume to work using WoL. I followed the instructions on the Arch Linux wiki page about WoL . **What do I have to configure on Linux to make it possible to boot using WoL as well?** All the tutorials about WoL on Linux I have been able to find, only describe how to enable it using ethtool and how to generate a magic package from another device, but none that I could find that would explain how to make sure you can boot using WoL. From a post on Ask Ubuntu I deduced that it probably has something to do with enabling /proc/acpi/wakeup for my Ethernet card. I tried enabling it using echo POP6 > /proc/acpi/wakeup which unfortunately did not enable it. When I tried it for a USB device, e.g. USB3, it did toggle correctly between being enabled and disabled. **Am I on the right track, with enabling my Ethernet card using /proc/acpi/wakeup or is it irrelevant to enabling Linux to boot using WoL? And if I should enable it, what is the correct way to enable it for my Ethernet card?** 1. http://blog.controlspace.org/2009/09/wake-on-lan-with-windows-7-and-asus-p6t.html 2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wake-on-LAN 3. https://askubuntu.com/questions/352888/wake-on-lan-13-04-problems In the case I made a bad assumption, this is how I assumed POP6 is my Ethernet device. Executing lspci -tv gave me: -+-[0000:ff]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-Core Registers | +-00.1 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder | +-02.0 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 QPI Link 0 | +-02.1 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 QPI Physical 0 | +-03.0 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller | +-03.1 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder | +-03.4 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Test Registers | +-04.0 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Control Registers | +-04.1 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Address Registers | +-04.2 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Rank Registers | +-04.3 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Thermal Control Registers | +-05.0 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Control Registers | +-05.1 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Address Registers | +-05.2 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Rank Registers | +-05.3 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Thermal Control Registers | +-06.0 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Control Registers | +-06.1 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Address Registers | +-06.2 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Rank Registers | \-06.3 Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Thermal Control Registers \-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub to ESI Port +-01.0--- +-03.0---+-00.0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cypress PRO [Radeon HD 5850] | \-00.1 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series] +-07.0--- +-14.0 Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers +-14.1 Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers +-14.2 Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers +-14.3 Intel Corporation 7500/5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Throttle Registers +-1a.0 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 +-1a.1 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 +-1a.2 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 +-1a.7 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 +-1b.0 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller +-1c.0--- +-1c.2-----00.0 Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller +-1c.5-----00.0 Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller +-1d.0 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 +-1d.1 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 +-1d.2 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 +-1d.7 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 +-1e.0-----02.0 VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller +-1f.0 Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller +-1f.2 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1 +-1f.3 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller \-1f.5 Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2 The device with a LAN connection is enp5s0 according to the respone of calling ip addr. Which I assumed is this one from lspci -tv: +-1c.2-----00.0 Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller. Executing cat /proc/acpi/wakeup gave me: Device S-state Status Sysfs node NPE2 S4 *disabled NPE4 S4 *disabled NPE5 S4 *disabled NPE6 S4 *disabled NPE8 S4 *disabled NPE9 S4 *disabled NPEA S4 *disabled P0P1 S4 *disabled pci:0000:00:1e.0 PS2K S4 *disabled PS2M S4 *disabled USB0 S4 *enabled pci:0000:00:1d.0 USB1 S4 *enabled pci:0000:00:1d.1 USB2 S4 *enabled pci:0000:00:1d.2 USB5 S4 *disabled EUSB S4 *enabled pci:0000:00:1d.7 USB3 S4 *enabled pci:0000:00:1a.0 USB4 S4 *enabled pci:0000:00:1a.1 USB6 S4 *enabled pci:0000:00:1a.2 USBE S4 *enabled pci:0000:00:1a.7 P0P4 S4 *disabled pci:0000:00:1c.0 P0P5 S4 *disabled P0P6 S4 *disabled pci:0000:00:1c.2 P0P7 S4 *disabled P0P8 S4 *disabled P0P9 S4 *disabled pci:0000:00:1c.5 NPE1 S4 *disabled pci:0000:00:01.0 NPE3 S4 *disabled pci:0000:00:03.0 NPE7 S4 *disabled pci:0000:00:07.0 GBE S4 *disabled Since the Sysfs node matches that what I got from lspci -tv for device POP6, I assumed I had to enable POP6 to enable my Ethernet card.