Did anyone ever get to the bottom of this? It appears when you shut her down, the lights on the Ethernet port go out, suggesting that the card is being turned off with the rest of the machine. This happens even when the laptop is plugged in. WOL from sleep works fine, WOL from hibernate and shutdown do not. Interestingly the adapter "Qualcomm Atheros Ar8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller" appears to support WOL as it has the options under the advanced tab in device manager. (Wake on magic packet, wake on pattern match, Shutdown wake up etc). The modded bios I have 5DCN90WW(v8.01) has the options "Wake on PME" and "Wake on Modem Ring" (both enabled) which don't appear to help.