Wake on Lan not working on driver higher than 1.0.1.4 for Intel l225-V

[solemgar]

Hello all!

I have a B-550F Asus ROG gaming motherboard with an Intel l225-V. With driver 1.0.1.4 from manufacturer wake on lan works fine. If I upgrade to the manufacturer version 1.0.2.8 WOL stops to work. Exactly same settings on the BIOS, no change. The same happens upgrading to the latest driver available in the intel page for this adapter (https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/184676/Intel-Ethernet-Controller-I225-V, 26.3).

Has anyone experienced this issue?

[Starbuck]

@abdulaziz  - 1.0.1.4 doesn't even work when your link is 2.5gbps.  I asked you if your connection was running at 1gbps or 2.5gbps in previous posts and you never answered that question?

[abdulaziz]

My asus motherborad has 2.5 gb lan

[Starbuck]

Yes, but are you synced / connected at 2.5gbps or 1.0 gbps?

[abdulaziz]

At 1gb

[Starbuck]

Yes, there you go. That's what I have been saying all along...it works fine, even with NEW versions of the driver *IF* you are connecting at 1gbps speed. It's when the adapter is connected to a 2.5gbps switch/router/hub that WOL ceases working and this is still the issue with the latest driver.

@abdulaziz - I can't confirm what your issue was, but I suspect if you update to a newer driver than 1.0.1.4 you'll still have WOL working.  That said, there's often not much benefit in updating to a newer ethernet driver if everything is already working well for you.

[abdulaziz]

Well i did update to a newer drive didnt work it worked in the old one is my issue was didnt work on wake up my pc after shuting it down throw wolow app then i talked the devloper he helped me out and it worked but just one issue he told me about in asus motherboard which if u press sleep in the wolow app and u press wake up button wont work well it did worked for me then didnt work at all so everything is working u can restart or shutdown or sleep it work if press wake button when ur pc is fully shutdown before i had that issue and the devlopre helped me and snice then it works perfect for me

[Jotaka]

Intel(R) Ethernet Controller (3) I225-V (1Gbps)

Driver version 2.1.3.15   (06/29/2023)
MB: AUS Z590-PLUS

Some days ago  I checked the WOL in my system and ... to my surprise it worked like a charm.
I suppose some of windows update has made the magic!!

[Flobert]

Could you please share your exact driver settings and maybe windows power management? That would be very helpful as I have been trying to setup wake from lan with intel lan i225v from my asus b650e-I. Many thanks for your help

[Jotaka]

I just enable magic packet and magic packet from S6 in controller properties. 

Perhaps it's important (I don't checked it) know, I have "quick boot" disabled. This is in control panel, energy options, there is an option to configure boot/shutdown buttons (my system is spanish so I don't know the exact name in english version). 
And of course, I followed all instructions for my mother board.

[Flobert]

Could you please let me know where you have found the driver?

Intel(R) Ethernet Controller (3) I225-V (1Gbps)

Driver version 2.1.3.15 (06/29/2023)

[Jotaka]

Hi

I found this update in Intel.com. I searched for I225-V, drives and software and I reached a file named Release-28.1. 
Now the is a newer release, 29.0 

[lbouvier]

Oh god I have just discovered this thread and I am on Asrock with this I have the Asrock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ac and I have the I225-V (3). My issue is that it stops responding after a while if I am on S5 or S3. LED activity lights are flashing so I guess the link is up on both acpi state but the computer just won't wake up on magic packets after a while. When I wake up sleep and wake up after 5 cycles it just stops responding (i have to restart the computer and then it starts working for another 5 times. This seems to be a nasty bug on the firmware of the Ethernet device because I have another computer a ThinkPad t480 and ThinkPad thunderbolt 3 dock and it always responds to my magic packets even after a day of being in S5 or cycling s3 and waking up. I'm kinda fed up with this think and I don't think RMA the board will do something. I will try an older driver and report back.

It's frustrating because the lights are there flashing but just no response after an hour or more it's just so unreliable compared to my ThinkPad that just works. I might send videos because I want to get it fixed and be able to wake the computer remotely and rdp into it when I need to. I just noticed I have a newer version and will try with the older one and see tonight. Here is my setup 

Lan Config and Windows config Fast Startup is disabled
Powercfg.exe /hibernate off (I think my computer was going to S4 hybrid sleep instead of S3 how dol check?)
Power Management
Allow the computer to turn off this device to save checked
Allow this device to wake the computer checked

Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer checked


Intel Lan Settings
Wake on Link Settings Enabled
Wake on Magic Packet Enabled
Wake on Pattern Match Enabled
Driver version 1.0.1.8
Driver date 2020-06-07
Static IP address and dhcp reservation from the router just to be safe

Wake On Lan Client MAC Address: using "" or does the same there is no difference address static 192.168.18.5 broadcast adress 255.255.255.255

[Starbuck]

I can confirm for @Jotaka  and @Flobert  as well that the WOL issue when connected at 2.5gbe link speed has now been resolved with driver 1.1.4.43 (dated 2024-02-15)  in Windows11 23H2.  Man that took a loooong time to get fixed.  I picked up the driver update via Asus Support for my Motherboard.