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Does Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN support WoWLAN (WoWL)?

ghfdh
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I need to know if this card support WoWLAN (WoWL). Thanks.

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AlHill
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This is a discontinued adapter. The product sheet does not indicate that WoWL is supported.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/centrino-ultimate-n-6300-brief.pdf

 

An Intel support engineer will have to confirm.

 

Doc

 

 

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ghfdh
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@Al.Hill thanks. Yea I have laptop I would like to wake up. It has this (from the title) card inside. I has WoL support for 100%, but I dont know if it support WoWL (the bios of dell m6600 DO support WoWL). I'm waiting for engineer to confirm this.

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Alberto_R_Intel
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ghfdh, Thank you for posting in the Intel® Communities Support.

 

Just to let you know, the Intel® Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300 card is under status of: End Of Interactive Support/Discontinued as you can confirm in the following link:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/59474/intel-centrino-ultimate-n-6300-dual-band.html

 

For your convenience, I will move your thread to the proper department where you will receive further peer to peer assistance on this matter.

 

As an option you may want to try our Discontinued Products Community to get recommendations from fellow community members.:

https://communities.intel.com/community/tech/discontinued-products

Or you may also find the Discontinued Products Website helpful to address your request:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/discontinued-products.html

 

Regards,

Alberto R.

 

Intel Customer Support Technician

A Contingent Worker at Intel

 

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n_scott_pearson
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It is unclear from the ARK data and available briefs whether this is supported. A way to check yourself is to go into the adapter properties and check whether there are any parameters related to Wake on Magic Packet included in the Advanced Adapter Settings. If there are not, then WOWL is not supported.

 

Hope this helps,

...S

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ghfdh
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@n.scott.pearson thanks.

 

It is available - https://imgur.com/a/FNaaW5P but it does not work. I can WOL but I can't WoWL. So I want to bu sure that this card is compatible with WoWL before I try to bang the wall with my head to know WTF is going on (I did update the BIOS properties to enable WOL and WOWL I did do the port forwart/ARP table on router).

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n_scott_pearson
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You're sure that it is actually sending the magic packet out over the wireless connection?

 

I have told you everything that I could ascertain. A TPS would be helpful but I cannot see one. Looks like, because it is EOLed, Intel isn't going to help either. There are other adapters that can be used in place of this one and are fairly cheap.

...S

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ghfdh
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:) got it, thanks anyway. I'm sure the WOL packets are send by wi-fi - it is OS router, I have installed tomato as its firmware - there is an very easy option to send a magic packet to wake up the machine. But this is not working. So my first position in a TO DO list is to check does this card really support WoWL (cause all the rest is set the same as in WoL example, which works just fine - and I did double check the wi-fi MAC address in a router table).

 

I did notice that "support" at intel/dell/huawei and some other big companies is just "on paper" (sometimes even not on paper - they get down old useful info just to sell the new stuff). it's built-in obsolescence, it will be fight back with OS, modded soft, custom hardware builds, ifixit portals, open slots/extension etc. simply cat and mouse game :)

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ghfdh
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So I have read that the adapter only supports the G1/S3/C3 Power State - so you can use WoWL to wake computer (by intel wireless card) from sleep but does not support G3/S6/C6 power state, so you wont WoWL the computer (by intel wireless card) when the computer is turned off.

 

S - power state

C - cpu state

G - global state

 

This table is just to ilustrate the GENERAL "state" (the states for specific euipment can vary):

 

S0/C0 - [G0 working] Operating State (card is powered and functional/standby)

S1/C1 - [G1 Sleeping] Halt (POS - Power on Suspend)

S2/C2 - [G1 Sleeping] Stop Grant

S3/C3 - [G1 Sleeping] Sleep (STR - Suspend To RAM - RAM remains powered)

S4/C3 - [G1 Sleeping] Deep Sleep

S5/C5 - [G2 Soft Off] Enhanced Deeper Sleep

S6/C6 - [G3 Mechanical Off] Deep Power Down (reduces internal voltage - its like mechanical off)

 

My tests seems to confirm this. I can wake the computer from sleep, but I can't turn it on when it is turned off.

 

(ffcourse I have turned all the WoWLAN setting to enabled)

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005585/network-and-i-o/wireless-networking.html

 

Any idea how I can resolve that (IF these assumptions are correct)?

 

Why this topic is not visible from - https://forums.intel.com/s/topic/0TO0P00000018NcWAI/wireless-networking ??

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ghfdh
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I have also notice an suspicious behavior with the hardware. WoL/WoWL should run only when the power is connected to the laptop (it mean charger not the battery).

 

So in case of WoL everything is working fine. BUT in case of WoWL when you put computer to the sleep, and then unplug the charger and plug it back again - WoWL will NOT work (but WoL will do). I test it with ethernet cable plug in and without - same thing - WoWL will not work after you unplug and plug again the charger (when computer is in sleep mode - windows 7 64bit).

 

I dunno if its dell hardware problem or intel (I'm using dell M6600 for the tests) and I don;t have time to check this out.

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ghfdh
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Also be aware that Intel choose not to update those cards drivers to well know vulnerabilities - https://www.touslesdrivers.com/index.php?v_page=3&v_code=6914

 

Cause of this policy using those cards with WoWLAN mode is dangerous!

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