after a lot of effort, I actually figured it out, I was sending the
magic packet, but it wasn't doing it.
It seems with WOL you have to set a flag on the NIC each time it
boots. Windows has an option in network configuration to tell it to
do this, while in linux you use "ethtool -s eth0 wol g" (where g says
to wake up on the magic packet, but can also specify other ways to
wake up).
There is very little documentation anywhere that says you have to do
this. I guess this is why soyo tech support responded to my email
asking how to get wol to work with
"We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. We do
not
support the Wake-On-LAN feature and the only reference we have to
offere
is the forum at google. "
my jaw dropped with that answer.
On Jan 31, 8:24 am, "dave AKA vwdoc1" <vwd...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> don't you need magic? ;-)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
>
> The Magic Packet is broadcast on the broadcast address for that particular
> subnet or the entire LAN. The listening computer receives this packet,
> checks it for the correct information, and then boots if the Magic Packet is
> valid.
> The Magic Packet is a broadcast frame, transmitted over port 0 or 7 or 9.
>
> what did you do or try?
>
> <spot...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news: oups.com...
>
> > Does anyone know how to get this feature to work?
>
> > I've set it in the bios. When the machine is off, the onboard nic
> > appears to be powered (router light is on). But nothing I do (none of
> > the wake on lan programs I've found) can seem to wake it up.
>
> > Any ideas?
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