On 5-Nov-05, at 12:28 PM, boybees wrote:
It's hard for me to believe that Slim would build a wake-on LAN
function into their wireless squeezebox, which then wouldn't work on a
wireless network.
Why? If WOL is a wired only feature, why should it be denied to wired
users if wireless doesn't support it?
I don't know where to turn at this point. My wireless
card is an Intel pro/wireless LAN 2100 #3b.
Any suggestions?
In my reading on the topic, it seemed to be widely acknolwedged that
WOL over wireless didn't work. Annoyingly, no consistent reason was
turning up. In som cases its the power requirements, or the 'not
always connected' aspect of wireless, or even the example you give.
When a computer is powered down, it may not have the wireless section
of the hardware powered up, thus it would have no way to receive the
packet.
On the more positive side, I did hear of some claims that it can work,
but only some hardware supported it. I don't know for sure if SB2
broadcasts the packet over wireless or not, but assuming it does, your
router would have to support it and then forward to the wireless card,
which would also have to have some way of supporting it (not to mention
support from the computer hardware as well).
-k
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