It's too technical for me but you seem to know very well what you're talking about. So I quess I am wrong about the wake-on-link. (I only learned that name in this discussion...)
In my Bios I have only the following setting: - Wake on PME enabled/disabled. I have it enabled. Google learned me that PME (power management event) is the same as WOL. In my Microsoft Server 2003 I have the following power options for my network adapter: 1) allow this device to bring the computer out of standby 2) allow only management stations to bring the computer out of standby I have found out that if you only select option 1, you don't need a magic package to wake the computer. Network traffic directed to the computer's ip address is enough. However when I select option 2. I need a magic package to wake the computer and the computer only stays awake for 2 minutes. The help text for option 2 is: "Specifies the computer to come out of low power state only when the device receives certain types of network traffic, which are typically sent by a network administrator. When you select this box, the only network traffic that causes the device to bring the operating system out of low power state is traffic sent by a network administrator. Clear the check box to allow all network traffic to cause the device to bring the computer out of a low power state. As a rule, if the computer provides services to other computers, you should clear the check box so that other computers can bring it out of a low power state." Maybe it's more clear now what I am talking about. And again, with my settings the system works beautifully and I trully believe that it is setup like it is designed to be. It wakes and stays awake. By switching on my laptop or SB2. It only won't go to sleep while the SB2 is powered on. I do think it is very typically that my system with option 2 selected behaves exactly the same as the systems of the other users, like shutting itself down after two minutes. I also agree with another user that this is a hot toppic, given the number of hits on this discussion. And I trully hope that somewhere in the future I will have the option to stop the SB2 communciating with the server in standby mode. Meanwhile I am unpluging the power cable of the SB2 when I go to sleep at night instead of using the power button on the remote. But the SB2 plays beautifully -- reinoud _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
