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Maybe your Wireless network card. supports Wake on WIFI ( WoWLAN ).

You can check Wake on WLAN capabilities running (assuming you have only single a WiFi device)

$ iw list

If it has support, it will look like this:

        WoWLAN support:
                 * wake up on disconnect
                 * wake up on magic packet
                 * wake up on pattern match, up to 20 patterns of 16-128 bytes,
                   maximum packet offset 0 bytes
                 * can do GTK rekeying
                 * wake up on GTK rekey failure
                 * wake up on EAP identity request
                 * wake up on rfkill release

You can activate it by:

sudo iw phy0 wowlan enable any

Then proceed to test it, by sending a magic-packet like you would in Wake on LAN from another device that is turned on and can send magic packets. (E.G. your router, another computer, …)

It might work :slight_smile: it might not, your BIOS/UEFI firmware might not allow this.
You might even have a trouble with suspend / hibernate.

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