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echo: win95
to: August Abolins
from: Jean Parrot
date: 2011-10-03 09:59:38
subject: WOL - how?

August, thanks again.

 AA> Any luck solving the Wake on LAN? Not only do you need a mobo/BIOS
> > that supports the feature, but you also need to make sure the NIC
>supports the function. You need a NIC that is WOL capable.

	Combining your two posts here, yes, I meet it all. The LEDs on the router
are lit full time, it had me wondering for a while as to the reason.

 AA> A handy hint is, if the machine is off and the light on your hub is not
 AA> on then the computer does not have the standby power for the card
 AA> enabled. Without this the computer cannot receive a WoL command.

	That is proper and present.

 AA> You also need to designate the remote pc's MAC address.
 AA> There is a handy tool that promises to simplify the process:
 AA> This site promises some WOL solutions:

 AA> There is a GUI version of the command-line program above:
 AA> http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx

	This is where I stand at the moment, still studying the process, I am able
to get the router and the NIC MAC addresses, I just have not set down to do
it as yet. Thanks for the URLs that you provided, specially the GUI one,
yeah ! I have printed this to look at it a bit later when the chainsaw runs
out of fuel.  ;-)

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