I've never seen a wireless card that supports WOL. Nearly every
ethernet card I've encountered does support WOL. It should work fine
if the player is connected to a wireless access point which is then
connected to the server via ethernet.
Squeezebox doesn't know if the remote system is connected via
wireless, wired, optical or pigeon(1), it just sends out the magic
packets and hopes for the best.
-dean
Footnotes:
1) http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
On Nov 5, 2005, at 12:28 PM, boybees wrote:
I'd like to be able to wake up my server (IBM thinkpad laptop)
using the
SB2 remote. I've started and followed several threads on this issue.
Here's what I've arrived at: when I look in the properties tab of my
wired ethernet card, I see that there is a power management tab where
you can check a box that says "allow this device to bring the computer
out of standby." This is the wake-on LAN function, and it works.
When I look at properties for my wireless card, I see no such power
management tab, and no check box for the wake-on LAN function.
So I called IBM tech support (usually pretty good) and ask the rep how
to configure my wireless card so that I would have the wake-on LAN
option. He said it's not possible because "the wireless card is on all
the time and is always receiving signals from everywhere, so how would
it know which signal is yours?" This answer betrayed a level of
cluelessness that made me not trust it, but I couldn't get anything
more useful out of him.
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. I don't know where to turn at this point. My
wireless
card is an Intel pro/wireless LAN 2100 #3b.
Any suggestions?
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