How to configure WOL

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how I can configure and test the Wake on Lan function on
an Abit AV8 motherboard.

Jumper settings, bios settings etc....

Im using a seperate computer connected via a cross over cable to do my
testing so there are no routers in the way.

Thanks Das

Das wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can configure and test the Wake on Lan function on
> an Abit AV8 motherboard.
>
> Jumper settings, bios settings etc....
no .. no jumpers ... but software: with linux you call ethtool:
ethtool -s eth0 wol g
Then the NIC is configured to turn on the PC if it recognises a
magic packet. But listen: if the PC is turned completely off by
turning off even 3V then the NIC looes the wake on LAN functionality.
e.g. after a current blackout you can't wake up your PC.

Ekkard

Is there any similar software for windows XP?

Darryl

"ekkard gerlach" <> wrote in message
news:...

> no .. no jumpers ... but software: with linux you call ethtool:
> ethtool -s eth0 wol g
> Then the NIC is configured to turn on the PC if it recognises a
> magic packet. But listen: if the PC is turned completely off by
> turning off even 3V then the NIC looes the wake on LAN functionality.
> e.g. after a current blackout you can't wake up your PC.
>
> Ekkard

Have you tried:

start-> control panel -> system -> Hardware -> device manager ->
network adapters -> power management -> allow this device to bring the
computer out of standby

Forrest

Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
http://home.comcast.net/~mobo.help/


On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:44:54 GMT, "Das" <>
wrote:

>Is there any similar software for windows XP?
>
>Darryl
>
< snip >

Ive tried using the XP soloution below but using this soloution it appears
that any traffic sent to the computers IP address wakes the computer up,
this is causing the computer to wake up even when I don't try to talk to it,
possibly due to microsoft's file and print sharing.

Additionaly the computer looses it IP when it is shutdown so it must be in
standby or hibernate mode for me to be able to wake it up.
Should I be able to wake it up even when it has been shutdown completely
providing the motherboard and network cards are still powered? ps. I
couldn;t get the magic packet to wake the computer up what ever mode it was
in.
Could my router be blocking the UDP packets for the wakeup signal? I have a
WRT54G Broadband Router. All PCs are connected on the interal ports of this
router.


My set up is as follows:
Abit A8 motherboard with onboard LAN (inc WOL support)
Internal lan it managed using a Linksys WRT54G Wireless router
Another PC without WOL support is being used to send the magic packet. Im
using a tool I got from http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm to send the packet

"- HAL9000" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Have you tried:
>
> start-> control panel -> system -> Hardware -> device manager ->
> network adapters -> power management -> allow this device to bring the
> computer out of standby
>
> Forrest
>
> Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
> http://home.comcast.net/~mobo.help/
>

I've not used wol before so the mechanics and details are unfamiliar
to me. A couple of comments though. Ethernet (LAN) transmit and
receive on a "lower layer" then TCP & UDP. That is, I wouldn't think
that a LAN message would pass through a router. A router handles IP
(layer 3). Magic packets occur at layer 2. TCP and UDP is layer 4.
A magic packet might get through a "switch" (as opposed to a router)
if the switch was configured to do so.

So I would suspect your router is the problem. If there is someway to
pass layer 2 broadcast packets through it then that should be a
solution. Hope that helps in some way...

Forrest

Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
http://home.comcast.net/~mobo.help/


On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:11:26 GMT, "Das" <>
wrote:

>Ive tried using the XP soloution below but using this soloution it appears
>that any traffic sent to the computers IP address wakes the computer up,
>this is causing the computer to wake up even when I don't try to talk to it,
>possibly due to microsoft's file and print sharing.
>
>Additionaly the computer looses it IP when it is shutdown so it must be in
>standby or hibernate mode for me to be able to wake it up.
>Should I be able to wake it up even when it has been shutdown completely
>providing the motherboard and network cards are still powered? ps. I
>couldn;t get the magic packet to wake the computer up what ever mode it was
>in.
>Could my router be blocking the UDP packets for the wakeup signal? I have a
>WRT54G Broadband Router. All PCs are connected on the interal ports of this
>router.
>
>
>My set up is as follows:
> Abit A8 motherboard with onboard LAN (inc WOL support)
> Internal lan it managed using a Linksys WRT54G Wireless router
> Another PC without WOL support is being used to send the magic packet. Im
>using a tool I got from http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm to send the packet
>
< snip >

Try going to this page http://www.gknw.com/wol.html and download
wol_32.zip . This will send a wakeup packet based on mac address not
IP. You can get the mac address from your routers config page. With
this utility you should be able to wake up a turned off computer as
long as wol is configured in the bios and the power supply is turned
on, at least it works for me. Good luck.

Mike


On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:29:10 -0600, - HAL9000 <> wrote:

>I've not used wol before so the mechanics and details are unfamiliar
>to me. A couple of comments though. Ethernet (LAN) transmit and
>receive on a "lower layer" then TCP & UDP. That is, I wouldn't think
>that a LAN message would pass through a router. A router handles IP
>(layer 3). Magic packets occur at layer 2. TCP and UDP is layer 4.
>A magic packet might get through a "switch" (as opposed to a router)
>if the switch was configured to do so.
>
>So I would suspect your router is the problem. If there is someway to
>pass layer 2 broadcast packets through it then that should be a
>solution. Hope that helps in some way...
>
>Forrest
>
>Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
>http://home.comcast.net/~mobo.help/
>
>
>On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:11:26 GMT, "Das" <>
>wrote:
>
>>Ive tried using the XP soloution below but using this soloution it appears
>>that any traffic sent to the computers IP address wakes the computer up,
>>this is causing the computer to wake up even when I don't try to talk to it,
>>possibly due to microsoft's file and print sharing.
>>
>>Additionaly the computer looses it IP when it is shutdown so it must be in
>>standby or hibernate mode for me to be able to wake it up.
>>Should I be able to wake it up even when it has been shutdown completely
>>providing the motherboard and network cards are still powered? ps. I
>>couldn;t get the magic packet to wake the computer up what ever mode it was
>>in.
>>Could my router be blocking the UDP packets for the wakeup signal? I have a
>>WRT54G Broadband Router. All PCs are connected on the interal ports of this
>>router.
>>
>>
>>My set up is as follows:
>> Abit A8 motherboard with onboard LAN (inc WOL support)
>> Internal lan it managed using a Linksys WRT54G Wireless router
>> Another PC without WOL support is being used to send the magic packet. Im
>>using a tool I got from http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm to send the packet
>>
> < snip >