wake on lan

[sonoma1993]

Hey I know some motherboards and/or networks cards support wake on lan. How do you get the wake on lan to work once you enable it in the bios? Do you need some kind of special software for it, or does microsoft remote desktop software work with it?



can mod move this over to networking please. I thought I clicked on networking, but I guess I accidentally clicked on motherboards.

thanks

 

[ch33zw1z]

I've used it on a PCI card, it involved a small cable that needed to be plugged in from the PCI card to the mobo. not sure if they're all like that.

 

[Tarrant64]

From the ones that I've used, if the PC was sleeping, and I needed to do an overnight backup, it would wake that computer up automatically to do so. I haven't tried with remote desktop. suppose I'll try it right now and get back to you.

 

[Tarrant64]

nope doesn't work for me.

 

[prophet001]

wake on lan can require that the pci card have a power cable plugged into it from the motherboard. also, if the computer is completely off it will still give a small amount of power to this card to allow it to listen on the broadcast ip. then when you have it enabled in the bios and you broadcast the "wake up" packet which contains the ip address, subnet mask, and mac address of the card, the card will wake up and boot the machine. amd makes a broadcast utility called magic packet. Also, i believe that the lan card itself has to support WOL.
p.s. it is wake on lan.. not wake on wan

 

[slikk]

Does the Asus P5B-e onboard nic support WOL? I don't see it listed in the spec.

 

[Peter]

WOL works from a standby-powered network chip, and powers the system back up. The software on the far end sends a "magic packet" wakeup call, and the rest is normal resume from sleep/hibernate or even a cold boot.

Now PCI slots cannot individually provide standby power, and that's why you need that extra cable. If I'd want a WOL capable client machine, I'd look for a mainboard whose chipset-integrated NIC provides that feature.