wake-on-lan cable goes where?

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where do i plug my wake-on-lan cable on my motherboard? i found the location
on the network card. the system is a dell dimention 4300. here is the
manual, the mobo specs are on page 68.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim4300/2h930bk1.pdf

if it doesn't have a mobo port can i split it into the psu some how?
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Some motherboards don't have a wake-on-lan header on them, but
you might find a setting in the bios for waking on PCI *devices*.
Don't know about that specific motherboard.

Do NOT splice it into the power supply leads.
 
kony said:
Do NOT splice it into the power supply leads.
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That would be possible. AFIAK, one is ground, one is 5 volts and one is supplied 5 volts when WOL is activated. The first 2 would be
easy enough and you could use the 5v out to activate a relay (or some other mechanism) which activates the power button.
 
James said:
where do i plug my wake-on-lan cable on my motherboard? i found the location
on the network card. the system is a dell dimention 4300. here is the
manual, the mobo specs are on page 68.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim4300/2h930bk1.pdf

if it doesn't have a mobo port can i split it into the psu some how?
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If thats a relatively new machine and its a relatively new NIC you're
putting in it, you wont need a WOL cable because power management will be
handled through a PCI 2.2 compliant bus - maybe thats why there's no
connector on the motherboard. Alot of Dell machines have proprietary PSU
connections but even aside from not knowing which wire does what, the PSU
wires are SUPPLY only (other than the switches and power good signal wire).
You'll be able to set it up properly without interfering with the PSU.

Paul
 
That would be possible. AFIAK, one is ground, one is 5 volts and one is supplied 5 volts when WOL is activated. The first 2 would be
easy enough and you could use the 5v out to activate a relay (or some other mechanism) which activates the power button.
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When there isn't a WOL header there is no need to do it, the
feature is enabled with bios settings and modem driver
properties.
 
kony said:
When there isn't a WOL header there is no need to do it, the
feature is enabled with bios settings and modem driver
properties.
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Depends on the age of the board. I agree doing a solder job would be the last resort but it should be possible if required on fairly
old boards.
 
heres some specs about my machine, it says that remote wake up doesn't work
on S5 modes and i did some research s5 mode means shutdown.
http://support.jp.dell.com/docs/systems/dim4300/syssetup.htm
does that mean even if i have a pci 2.2 this won't work? (cuz it doesnt seem
to work. could it because my nic doesn't suport the pci 2.2 remote wake up?
its an intel pro/100+ nic and the drivers do have wake on lan but it doesn't
work)
 
heres some specs about my machine, it says that remote wake up doesn't work
on S5 modes and i did some research s5 mode means shutdown.
http://support.jp.dell.com/docs/systems/dim4300/syssetup.htm
does that mean even if i have a pci 2.2 this won't work? (cuz it doesnt seem
to work. could it because my nic doesn't suport the pci 2.2 remote wake up?
its an intel pro/100+ nic and the drivers do have wake on lan but it doesn't
work)
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Where does it say it doesn't work?

I saw the part that read:

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"Allows remote Wake on LAN. (Dell does not support Wake on LAN in
S3 or S5 Suspend Modes on this Dimension™ system.) The default is
Off."

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That Dell "does not support..." doesn't necessarily mean it won't
work, only that they don't SUPPORT it, as a matter of providing
technical assistance or warranty to an end-user based on that
feature. That the setting exists is in itself is a sign that you
do have the feature. There may be another setting that we are
missing, a Dell forum or newsgroup may be better able to assist
you. I do think the Intel NIC supports this feature without the
WOL cable, as a PCI event, but perhaps Dell hid and disabled that
part of your bios setup... OEMs LOVE to disable and hide
features.
 
heres where i read the s5 isn't suported. i assumed it ment that it doesn't
work:

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportfo...essage.id=18367&highlight=4300+s5+Wake#M18367

the "remote wake up" option is enabled in my Bios. i updated my intel nic
drivers and they have a remote wake up with magic packet option that i
selected then i used amd's magic packet application to send a magic packet
to that computer's mac and ip address and nothing happend.
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You might see if Intel provides a utility on their website (or
even on the driver floppy) to enable or configure this.
 
well the properties of their driver do have the Remote wake up property and
the wake up event by magic packet but it doesnt' seem to work..
 
well the properties of their driver do have the Remote wake up property and
the wake up event by magic packet but it doesnt' seem to work..
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Ok, but i didn't mean a config in the driver props, rather a
separate utility.
 
found the solution! i had to enable PME in the nic driver settings. i guess
its a power management thing.
thanks for the support!
 
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