I am running Slimserver connected by cable to a Netgear wireless router.
My Squeezebox 3 connects wirelessly to the router. This works fine and
the SB3 wakes up the PC running Slimserver.
I would like to connect the PC wirelessly. I have tried doing this by
connecting a wireless Netgear Printer
Do I understand properly? You have a wired connection from PC to
WGPS606, then go wireless to the Netgear router?
I think you have to speak to Netgear customer support and find out
whether they will pass on the magic packet that does WOL. They
*should*, but that's not the same as *they do*.
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First of all, many thanks to those of you who have posted your
experiences here -- reading though them helped answer a lot of my
questions as I chose and then configured my Squeezeboxes.
To save power and noise, I didn't want the WinXP machine on which I
have SlimServer installed to run 24/7; I
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Ethernet to wireless router, then wireless to SB2. XP settings on the
network
card set to allow PC to be woken by WOL packet, and Admin Only checkbox
also
checked.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Configure WOL on network card, as
On 23-Dec-05, at 5:24 AM, don_quay wrote:
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Ethernet to wireless router, then wireless to SB2. XP settings on the
network
card set to allow PC to be woken by WOL packet, and Admin Only checkbox
also
checked.
Is this not just
On 23/12/05 at 10:45 -0800, kdf wrote
On 23-Dec-05, at 5:24 AM, don_quay wrote:
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Ethernet to wireless router, then wireless to SB2. XP settings on the
network
card set to allow PC to be woken by WOL packet, and Admin Only
Well, I just double-checked, and with a Sleep time of 15 minutes, hard
drive set to sleep whenever possible, I played for 30 minutes without a
problem.
The difference may be that I was playing a BBC Listen Again stream, so
as long as the computer itself was not asleep, it would not matter if
the
The mac is not connected to the internet, so I can't try streaming which
would generate a different workload on the server.
I've tried the hard drive sleep setting on or off but it makes no
difference.
The squeezebox is plugged directly into the mac with a 'standard' rj45
cable (not a
On 1/12/05 at 01:00 -0800, danco wrote
Things for you to try, if you can on a headless machine. What happens
if the hard drive is set not to go to sleep?
Though, from things I have read, using EnergySaver to set the hard
drive not to sleep does not actually work unless the computer itself
is
well, I tried this but it didn't keep my mac alive :-(
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On 30/11/05 at 05:04 -0800, xio wrote
well, I tried this but it didn't keep my mac alive :-(
What version of the OS? What version of SlimServer?
For me wake-on-Lan wakes the computer, and once SlimServer is on the
computer will not sleep automatically at a time set by EnergySaver.
This is
Cheers,
Did not figure I would get an ouch as reply - I am just trying to
communicate my findings/experiences, not be rude (sorry)...:
Using previous versions of Slimserver and firmware #16 on my SB2
everything was working as previously described - WOL, server staying
awake while SB2 powered on,
SB2 has a very large buffer, so the music can continue to play after
server shutdown, until the buffer is exhausted. You'll see no screen
updates, because that's controlled via the server. Remember that
contstant network activity I mentioned, even duing native WMA playback?
I believe what has
On 11/11/05 at 08:17 -0800, MrC wrote
It is commonly acccepted that users should not enable automatic
sleep/hibernate when using their systems as servers.
As far as I can tell, on my Mac running SlimServer actually prevents
Energy Saver from putting the machine to sleep. I can do so manually
Sorry, that comment was meant for Windows. Different platforms, as
you've noticed, have different rules.
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On 11/11/05 at 10:45 -0800, MrC wrote
Sorry, that comment was meant for Windows. Different platforms, as
you've noticed, have different rules.
If that was intended as a reply to my post, yes I did realise that
different systems behave differently in regard to waking and
sleeping. I thought
Regardless of the posts from users who have never actually tried the
setup:
With previous firmware versions of SB2 I *did not* (where is the font
size 400 when you need it?) have any problems with my Slimserver
(running Windows XP SP2, English, on an old P3 PC with a PCI NIC using
WOL through
I believe the WMA stream still goes via SlimServer, even if the SB2 is
decoding it?
Or are you talking about using Squeezenetwork?
James
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Ouch getprogs!
Are you sure that simple network activity will keep the server system
awake vs. the disk activity and process activity required by the
server-based decoding that kept the system awake?
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MrC
MrC's
Yes, if you read my post. I did a test where I send a stream of Ping's
to my server after WOL had woken the server.
It still went back to sleep.
And I was also playing mp'3 at the time.
So are you sure that your PC ever stayed awake after a WOL event?
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oreillymj
I think we're miscommunicating. Early, you indicated:
oreillymj Wrote:
Now, since the WMA decoding is done in the SB2, no traffic is generated
from the SB2 to the server
I don't believe this is true. Run a packet sniffer and you'll see that
there is plenty of network traffic on the 3483
Cheers,
Prior to the firmware #26 released with 6.2, my setup was happily
working! The SB2 would wake up my server, connect (after the 20 sec.s
or so boot time) and I could start playing my netradio stations (using
WMA streams).
Now, since the WMA decoding is done in the SB2, no traffic is
On 9-Nov-05, at 12:50 AM, getprogs wrote:
This is *not* related to any Windows XP bug etc., but simply a result
of missing traffic from the SB2 to the server - I believe that a Linux
box will also exhibit the same behaviour to preserve power.
you may believe, but real life says differently
By the way, I did some testing and found that the KB is not 100%
accurate.
I used by SB2 to bring my PC out of standby. It then did a ping -t
192.168.2.3 Server IP to send a stream of pings to my server.
It still shut down after a few mins. The power settings on my PC have
hibernation/standby
It is my understanding that there are two different behaviors with
Windows and what seems to be collectively called sleep here.
1) For automatic shutdown/sleep/hibernate modes, the Windows Power
Options controls the behavior.
2) Once the system is asleep, no matter how it got there, there is a
MrC Wrote:
2) Once the system is asleep, no matter how it got there, there is a 2
minute window to provide direct user input, or input via terminal
services to log in. This allows admins to log in, do their thing, and
have the system follow (1) above. If no log in occurs (actually,
While I was writing actually, keyboard or mouse activity I knew I was
going to get called on my brevity, but didn't feel like filling in the
rest.
It should have included terminal services logins. Waking up a
machine and expecting it to catch the 2 minute window would not be very
reliable.
Wake On LAN tends not to work with Wireless NICs because there is no
power sent to the Wireless radio when the PC/laptop is in standy/sleep
mode.
On an IBM Thinkpad, you'll see the Wireless led on the lid go off when
the system is in standby. That means the radio has been shut down to
save
oreillymj Wrote:
The other problem was that WinXP would only stay awake for about 5
minutes before going back to sleep. I contacted Microsoft support, but
they basically fobbed me off. There is a KB article on Microsoft's
support site which describes the issue and it's apparently meant to
What about a 'Wireless Bridge' (http://tinyurl.com/9t3xp) ?
I know it's a waste of desk space money but having a ethernet card
equiped PC/laptop connecting via a very small wire to a bridge sitting
next to it...and then being transmitted through the air would
work...I'm 99.9% sure.
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Jim
If I read that right, a stream of WOL requests, 1 minute apart, would
keep it awake.
Or other activity - not sure what would qualify, though. You'd think
slim sending network traffic out would qualify.
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Michaelwagner
If SD codes it, I certainly test the firmware update.
What I don't want is a PC in a Sleep/Wake/Sleep/Wake cycle.
I know that will shorten the life of my HD.
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Since the new firmware does the WMA ecoding on the SB, my slimserver is
going into powersave since not enough activity is generated from the SB
to the server (i.e. the server thinks the SB is powered off - SB2 to be
exact ;-). This is particularly anoying when listening to Internet
radio streams
Quoting getprogs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Since the new firmware does the WMA ecoding on the SB, my slimserver is
going into powersave since not enough activity is generated from the SB
to the server (i.e. the server thinks the SB is powered off - SB2 to be
exact ;-). This is particularly anoying
dean Wrote:
Nearly every ethernet card I've encountered does support WOL.I have some old
ones that don't. Also, WOL requires at least an AT-X
power supply and power to the lan card, so some older machines won't be
able to support it even if the lan card does.
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 19:44 -0800, Michaelwagner wrote:
dean Wrote:
Nearly every ethernet card I've encountered does support WOL.
I have some old ones that don't. Also, WOL requires at least an AT-X
power supply and power to the lan card, so some older machines won't be
able to support it
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