wake on lan

[b-man]

have a dell latitude c610 and want to use wol so i can put it to sleep using remote desktop and wake it using wake on lan so i dont have to access the computer when i want to turn it on

it has a 3com 3c920 lan card and have found rwu settings (im guessing its remote wake up) but cant get it to work

Edited June 13, 2011 by b-man

[jaclaz]

WHERE did you find these settings?

HOW did you set them?

Generally speaking, to have WOL working with lan cards (not the ones integrated in the motherboard) often a cable need to be connected from the card to the motherboard.

jaclaz

[b-man]

found the settings in the advance tab of the lan card properties

RWU ARP

RWU Macic pkt

RWU ping

standby RWU Macic pkt

standby RWU pattern

set them to enabled

and ticked the allow this device to bring out of standby

also enabled wol in bios

forwarded port to the computer ( i have a Thomson TG782T )

opened ports in firewall

its an integrated 3com 3c920 (3C905-TX Compatible)

iv read this and created a reg entry to input these settings

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/network-internet-wireless/f/3324/t/17164681.aspx

basically everything that needs to be done should be but i still cant get it to work

unsure if im able to get the packets through the router to the computer or if i havent set the computer up properly

how do i make sure the packets are getting to the computer? i have tried using the remote desktop port as i know this works but nothings happening

on the wol client im using on my phone it keeps saying host not found

Edited June 13, 2011 by b-man

[jaclaz]

found the settings in the advance tab of the lan card properties

Good , which means "bad".

Some settings should be ENABLED; some DISABLED :

RWUARP = "ENABLE"

RWULink = "DISABLE"

RWUMagic = "ENABLE"

RWUPING = "DISABLE"

What happens when you send a magic packet?

http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm

http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1543

What are the settings in your BIOS?

Review this:

http://www.rm.com/Support/TechnicalArticle.asp?cref=TEC438020

The page you mention has a link to an old article that can be found here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050321142614/http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=TT1041772

do you have such an utility as TCAUDIAG ? (part of windiags from 3com), some more info here:

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/network-internet-wireless/f/3324/p/4836254/4959240.aspx#4959240

jaclaz

[allen2]

As far as i know, WOL use usually udp and not tcp as protocol and ports 7 or 9. Did you configure you router to redirect those udp ports ?

Edited June 13, 2011 by allen2

[b-man]

just set wake on lan to enabled in bios

thanks will look at that when i can get access to it next

looking at those last 2 links it wants to install 5.1 but i already have version 5.4 so wont install and i dont have the TCAUDIAG utility

i wont be able to test wol until i can access it

Edited June 15, 2011 by b-man