Expose Wake on LAN options in Plasma Settings

As of Plasma 6.7.4, you can tweak the most used network parameters, including adding VPN profiles, using the GUI in Plasma settings.

An important parameter, which I believe should be included in the configuration page for wired networks, is 802-3-ethernet.wake-on-lan.

I know that enabling Wake on LAN (if supported) should be as simple as running
nmcli connection modify "Wired network X" 802-3-ethernet.wake-on-lan magic

but I think that this option should be directly visible to the users, maybe with the addition of a simple warning to check BIOS settings (in my case I need to have resume by PCI-e enabled for the magic packets to work properly).


Similarly, the same could be done with 802-11-wireless.wake-on-wlan, but support for WoWLAN might be more limited than simple WoL. The hardware must support it as well as the drivers, and power-saving settings have to be set accordingly (if the BIOS even allows it). Changing this parameter might not be enough to enable the feature, but we could show a similar warning to the one I mentioned above.

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