shawje;591167 Wrote: > Gordon. Pleased to hear that you are more successful with WoWlan than I > am. I find that I can wake the Mac wirelessly if it has been sleeping > for a short while (possibly less than one hour), but not longer. My > assumption is that somehow the router and the Mac are getting > disassociated through some sort of time out. I can't yet figure out if > this is the work of the Mac or the router. I'm using WPA Personal > security, which might have something to do with it. OK, forgive me if I'm stating the obvious here...but I boot my mac-mini into OSX only about once per month...so I'm hardly an expert.
The more I look at this, the more it seems as though Apple is trying to downplay WOL ability in favor of "wake-on-demand" which seems to be a new protocol that Apple is pushing (possibly in order to sell Airport base stations or Time Capsules??) Anyway, I was shocked (SHOCKED!) to see that, on my mac-mini running 10.6.5 there *-no longer is any options tab available on the Energy Saver preference pane.-* So, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to enable or disable WOL on the ethernet or airport nics. Fortunately, you can still use pmset to enable or disable WOL. >From a terminal, run: # pmset -a -g If you see "womp 0" then wake-on-lan is disabled on your machine. Enable it via: # sudo pmset -a womp 1 I just did this an I was able to successfully WOL my mac-mini "wirelessly" via it's airport nic through my ancient FWAG112 netgear router. I'll put the mini to sleep and wait a few hours and see if it will wake up from an extended sleep. A useful discussion of Snow-Leopard and WOL is here: http://martins-random-notes.blogspot.com/2010/09/fixing-wake-on-lan-on-mac-snow-leopard.html PS: presumably, "womp" stands for "wake-on-magic-packet". -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
