Wake On Lan

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Athome

Hi There,

I have a asus p4pe motherboard with a broadcom lan atached on it. Now i try
to use function wake on lan, but it will not work. I use the poweroff
program on my laptop to wake the asus desktop. Can somebody help me.

PS. i use a linksys as gateway /router


Greetings,


Peter
 
Athome said:
Hi There,

I have a asus p4pe motherboard with a broadcom lan atached on it. Now i try
to use function wake on lan, but it will not work. I use the poweroff
program on my laptop to wake the asus desktop. Can somebody help me.

PS. i use a linksys as gateway /router


Greetings,


Peter
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I don't have the P4PE to know for sure, but there are two ways
wake-on-lan can be implemented:

a) with a special 3-pin header on the motherboard and a network card
which also has the same header. You use a special 3-wire twisted cable
to connect the two headers. When the network card receives a 'magic
packet' it will signal the motherboard through this cable, and if the
wake-on-lan option is enabled the motherboard will respond by waking up.

b) utilising the general wake-on-pci capability specified in PCI 2.2
revision. Compliant PCI devices (not only network cards!) can signal a
wake-up event to the PCI bus and have the motherboard wake up too, if
the wake-on-PCI option is enabled.

If the broadcom chip is onboard, chances are it does not use the
traditional wake-on-lan wiring but rather relies on PCI wake up
capabilities. Especially if there's a separate wake-on-lan header on the
motherboard, you can be sure about that because the wake-on-lan
connector is saved for add-on PCI network cards.

So maybe you need to enable PCI wake up. Also in device manager
properties, communication devices with suitable capabilities and
suitable drivers will offer an 'allow this device to wake up computer
from standby' option, make sure that one is enabled too for the broadcom
chip.

Regards
Nikos
 
Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for your reply.
The braodcom Lan is indeed off the onboard kind of lan's.
I have set the wake on lan parameter in the bios,
Also set the network tab in windows and enabled the wake on lan option.
But no result so far! Can the firewall/gateway be aproblem??


Greetings,


Peter
 
Athome said:
Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for your reply.
The braodcom Lan is indeed off the onboard kind of lan's.
I have set the wake on lan parameter in the bios,
Also set the network tab in windows and enabled the wake on lan option.
But no result so far! Can the firewall/gateway be aproblem??


Greetings,


Peter
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No because I don't think WOL packets live higher than the MAC layer, so
regular IP firewalls shouldn't be able to detect such things.
Maybe there's a problem with the program you use to broadcast the WOL
"magical packet".

Regards
Nikos
 
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