Re: Wake on LAN HOWTO?

["Ricky Bryce" <rbryce@mcleodusa.net>]

Erich,

Glad you got the IBM's to work.  I have never tried this with Dell
machines.  I guess all I can say is "Dude, You're getting a Dell!"

The power supply has to hold minimal power to the Mainboard in order to
keep the NIC powered up while the machine is powered down.  Maybe look
at your hub or switch and make sure the NIC is active when the machine
is shut off.  I'm not really an expert on mainboards, but maybe the
Mainboard only powers up one of the PCI slots when the machine is
powered down, and maybe the NIC has to be in that slot??  I have heard
of motherboards which use the PCI slot itself to control the WOL instead
of relying on the WOL cable to the motherboard.  The mainboard manual
should tell whether or not that is the case.  Or maybe the power supply
isn't supplying the power needed to hold the NIC up when the machine is
powered down?  If you NIC is active on the hub, then maybe try a bios
flash...  Just throwing out wild ideas now.  

Let me know WHEN you get it, and how you solved it!  I once had the
opposite problem...  For some reason whenever I powered an enet switch
down, and powered it back up, it was waking once of the machines on the
network without even sending the "Magic Packet"...  I am not sure what
was going on in that case.

Good Luck!  Catch you later!

Ricky Bryce


-----Original Message-----
From: luci-discuss-owner@luci.org [mailto:luci-discuss-owner@luci.org]
On Behalf Of Erich Schroeder
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 10:18 PM
To: luci-discuss@luci.org
Subject: Re: Wake on LAN HOWTO?


Ricky,
   Thanks for the note. I got it to work, at least partially. I've got
two IBMs with onboard intel NIC which I have working, but there are also
four Dells with onboard 3com NIC which report in the bios that they have
WOL but don't "W", at least not yet and not in response to the
"magic-packet" software. The unfortunate thing is that I'll be replacing
the IBMs with more Dells (rats) so I'll continue plugging away.

   Sure felt good when that first IBM woke up! Magic.

eks

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Ricky Bryce wrote:

> Erich,
> 
> Glad you found the information.  If you go to AMD.com and look at the
> technotes, you will se the actual packet that is broadcast on the
network.  
> You just have to be sure that your enet card supports it, and in some 
> cases, you may have to connect a WOL cable between the nic and the 
> motherboard.  You will probably find a setting in the BIOS also to
enable 
> the Wake On Lan support.  Let me know if you have any trouble getting
it 
> to work.  Good Luck!
> 
> Ricky Bryce
> 
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Erich Schroeder wrote:
> 
> > Well, I SAID I was just starting. To respond to my own question:
> > 
> > http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/
> > 
> > http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/mini-howto/wol-mini-h
> > owto.html
> > 
> > eks
> > 
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Erich Schroeder wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >   I've just started my search, I'm looking for descriptions of the

> > > methods for implimenting "Wake on LAN", and wondering if anyone on

> > > the list has already done this?
> > > 
> > > eks
> > > 
> > >
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