Bug#653179: linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64: Can't switch off WoW option of RT5390 wi-fi card, notebook wakes on wi-fi activity

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

retitle 653179 rt2800pci: missing ethtool wol command (ability to enable/disable wake-on-wlan)
severity 653179 wishlist
tags 653179 + upstream
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pol kh wrote:

> $ lspci | grep Ralink
> 04:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5390 [802.11 b/g/n 1T1R G-band PCI Express Single Chip]
[...]
> # ethtool -s wlan0 wol d
> Cannot get current wake-on-lan settings: Operation not supported
>   not setting wol
[...]
> [   10.535481] phy0 -> rt2800pci_mcu_status: Error - MCU request failed, no response from hardware
[...]
> 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT5390 [802.11 b/g/n 1T1R G-band PCI Express Single Chip] [1814:539f]
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion DM1Z-3000 PCIe wireless card [103c:1637]
[...]
>         Kernel driver in use: rt2800pci

Thanks.

I'm surprised that wake-on-wlan is enabled by default for you --- is
that a BIOS setting?

In any event, the rt2800pci driver does not know how to handle the
wake-on-wlan bit, and that is a deficiency relative to the Windows
driver.  I'd recommend getting in touch with the upstream developers
at users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com to work on implementing it.  Please
cc either me or this bug log when doing so so we can track it.  They
may ask you to read registers set by the Windows driver or to test
patches.  Once a patch has been accepted upstream, we can apply it.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan