WOL for wireless (WoWlan?)

[bgstcola]

Hello

I'm looking for a way to wake up a computer with wifi. Google tells me that there is something called WoWlan but I cant find any adapters that support it and it seems like it isn't easy to enable in Win7. Is there some way I can wake up the computer without wired ethernet?

Thanks

 

[JackMDS]

Search Intel they might have one or two Wireless card that support WOL.

Otherwise Wireless is Not part of WOL because they are Not kept alive when the computer is Off.


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[bgstcola]

Seems to be disabled in intel products...

http://communities.intel.com/message/160144

does that mean I'm SOL?

 

[Nothinman]

Wireless requires a lot more setup than ethernet to make a connection. Ethernet just requires a cable and minimal power to the MII to receive a packet, but wireless requires you know the channel, SSID, encryption key, etc so unless the card can join a network with no OS help you're going to be out of luck. And most wireless cards these days are effectively blank and require that the OS load the firmware onto them at initialization time.

 

[JackMDS]

There is sort of away to do WOL via Wireless.

Instead of using Wireless card, you can set a Wireless Router as a Wireless Client Bridge and feeds a wire WOL capable computer via short wire from the Bridge to the LAN port.

It works well (I have few installations like this) for the cost of the additional Wireless Router (Bridge) kept On all the time.


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[bgstcola]

Instead of using Wireless card, you can set a Wireless Router as a Wireless Client Bridge and feeds a wire WOL capable computer via short wire from the Bridge to the LAN port.

Thanks that's a great idea. I just upgraded my router so I will try and use my old router as a bridge.