Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Wake-on-LAN is often a convenient way to keep a computer powered off most of the time and still bring it up when needed, like waking a home server to SSH into it, start a few containers, run backups, grab files from a NAS, or fire up a dev machine without having it fully running 24/7. This video demonstrates how to setup Wake-on-LAN on Fujitsu Futro s920 with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server. Wake-on-LAN on Linux depends on driver and hardware support and interface names or paths can differ between systems, but the following steps describe a common and working approach on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. First, running sudo ethtool network-interface is simply a diagnostic step that shows the current settings of the network interface, including whether Wake-on-LAN is supported and which mode (if any) is currently active, so you can confirm the hardware and driver are capable of WoL. Next, sudo ethtool -s network-interface wol g explicitly enables Wake-on-LAN in "g" mode, meaning the interface will wake the machine when it receives a magic packet, but this setting is temporary and will be lost after a reboot, which is why the next steps exist. By running sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/wol.service, you create a custom systemd service file that re-applies the WoL setting automatically at boot; the [Unit] section describes the service and ensures it runs after the network stack is initialized, the [Service] section defines it as a one-shot action that executes /sbin/ethtool -s network-interface wol g exactly once to enable WoL, and the [Install] section tells systemd that this service should be part of the normal multi-user startup. After saving the file, sudo systemctl daemon-reload forces systemd to re-read its configuration so it becomes aware of the new service, sudo systemctl enable wol.service registers the service to run automatically on every boot, and sudo systemctl start wol.service runs it immediately so you don’t need to reboot to activate the setting. Finally, the wakeonlan 90:1b:0e:fa:3d:05 command (run from another machine on the same network or a properly routed network) sends a magic packet to the specified MAC address, which is the actual test that confirms everything is working and that the Ubuntu system can now be woken remotely over the network.
sudo ethtool enp1s0
sudo ethtool -s enp1s0 wol g
sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/wol.service
[Unit]
Description=Enable Wake-on-LAN
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/sbin/ethtool -s enp1s0 wol g
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable wol.service
sudo systemctl start wol.service
wakeonlan MAC
📚 Useful Links
===
Setting Up Wake-on-LAN on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
anavi.org/article/340
📕 Chapters
==
0:00 Intro
0:27 BIOS
2:29 Ubuntu
7:29 Demo
9:42 Advantages
10:01 Disadvantages
10:31 Conclusions
Wake-on-LAN is often a convenient way to keep a computer powered off most of the time and still bring it up when needed, like waking a home server to SSH into it, start a few containers, run backups, grab files from a NAS, or fire up a dev machine without having it fully running 24/7. This video demonstrates how to setup Wake-on-LAN on Fujitsu Futro s920 with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server. Wake-on-LAN on Linux depends on driver and hardware support and interface names or paths can differ between systems, but the following steps describe a common and working approach on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. First, running sudo ethtool network-interface is simply a diagnostic step that shows the current settings of the network interface, including whether Wake-on-LAN is supported and which mode (if any) is currently active, so you can confirm the hardware and driver are capable of WoL. Next, sudo ethtool -s network-interface wol g explicitly enables Wake-on-LAN in "g" mode, meaning the interface will wake the machine when it receives a magic packet, but this setting is temporary and will be lost after a reboot, which is why the next steps exist. By running sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/wol.service, you create a custom systemd service file that re-applies the WoL setting automatically at boot; the [Unit] section describes the service and ensures it runs after the network stack is initialized, the [Service] section defines it as a one-shot action that executes /sbin/ethtool -s network-interface wol g exactly once to enable WoL, and the [Install] section tells systemd that this service should be part of the normal multi-user startup. After saving the file, sudo systemctl daemon-reload forces systemd to re-read its configuration so it becomes aware of the new service, sudo systemctl enable wol.service registers the service to run automatically on every boot, and sudo systemctl start wol.service runs it immediately so you don’t need to reboot to activate the setting. Finally, the wakeonlan 90:1b:0e:fa:3d:05 command (run from another machine on the same network or a properly routed network) sends a magic packet to the specified MAC address, which is the actual test that confirms everything is working and that the Ubuntu system can now be woken remotely over the network.
sudo ethtool enp1s0
sudo ethtool -s enp1s0 wol g
sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/wol.service
[Unit]
Description=Enable Wake-on-LAN
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/sbin/ethtool -s enp1s0 wol g
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable wol.service
sudo systemctl start wol.service
wakeonlan MAC
📚 Useful Links
===
Setting Up Wake-on-LAN on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
anavi.org/article/340
📕 Chapters
==
0:00 Intro
0:27 BIOS
2:29 Ubuntu
7:29 Demo
9:42 Advantages
10:01 Disadvantages
10:31 Conclusions
