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 power. Compare this to an ethernet NIC in a PC, where you'll see a link light on even when the PC is in standby. Think about, the NIC must be "awake" to pickup the magic packets on the LAN. There was a Wirless adapater for a PC mentioned on these forums that did support WOL. It was PCMCIA card in an adapter on a PCI card. It's the only wirless card that I've even seen to support WOL. 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 work that way "by design". -- oreillymj ------------------------------------------------------------------------ oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17891 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
