All right, I'm rather peeved at this (the joys of open source). Apparently, some jerk of a developer thought that it would be a good idea to remove all support for wake on LAN from the Atheros Linux driver because it made laptops resume immediately after being put to sleep. Why he didn't fix the underlying problem, I don't know.

I do know that I now have a LInux server in my living room running Ubuntu 14.04 with an Atheros AR8161, and Linux doesn't recognize that the ethernet controller supports WoL.

I don't want to have to build a new version of the driver (don't really understand how/feel comfortable with it). Does anyone know an alternative way to get WoL back, or failing that, when support will be re-added?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...es-4175491464/

Thanks.