Really Cool, This works for me. I tested my Dell Dimension 8300 first to make sure it could be woken by my laptop.
Update the firmware, put the PC to sleep, and the SB2 had no problem waking the PC. The firmware worked fine. I'm not sure if a small sleep period is required after the magic packet has been sent to allow the PC to wake up like to 20 second count-down when attempting to connect to a WLAN. BTW the way here are my settings for anyone else to try. The NIC has to be in the 2nd PCI slot of a PCI 2.2 compatible motherboard. Older Motherboards need a small cable from the NIC to the M/board. Dell had my PC configed this way. In XP, open device manager an locate the Network adapter connected to you router. Click on the Power Management tab. Enable the following options. Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby My PC has an Intel PRO/100VE card, so options will vary according to maker. The Advanced tab allows me to alter the sertings of this NIC. In Advanced go to Wake On LAN, click properties I have Enable PME - Enabled Wake On Link - OS Controlled Wake on Settings - Wake On Magic Packet In Power Saver Options, click properties Reduce power during standby - Enabled. There are a number of small utilities to can use to test WOL, all you'll need is another PC on the W/LAN and the MAC address of your NIC to try them out. Also don't try anything embedded in a web page, as your router firewall is likely to block the packets before they get anywhere near your internal network. -- oreillymj _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
