Failed to wakeup a PC from Vista Machine sending WOL magic packet

[Chau Chee Yang]

Hi,

I have a PC with MAC Address "00:02:A5:BF:65F".

I sent a WOL magic packet to the PC from machine running Windows Vista
but the PC doesn't wake up.

I am sure the PC already configure properly with WOL enabled. I have a
Linux server in the network and I use the following command to wake up
the PC and it works:

/sbin/ether-wake 00:02:A5:BF:65F

I also can wake up the PC using any WOL program from any windows XP machine.

I also turn on the following in my Windows Vista machine under the power
management of my network adapter as instructed in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941145 :

"Allow this device to wake the compute"
"Only allow management stations to wake the computer"

Is there any other setting I miss? Thank you.

--
Best regards,
Chau Chee Yang

E Stream Software Sdn Bhd
URL: www.sql.com.my
SQL Financial Accounting

 

[Bob]

Go to Advance Power Settings.
Set hard drive to turn off a minute or 2 before sleep.
Set Hybrid and Hibernate modes to "Off"
Under USB settings select "Disable"
Under Multimedia select "Allow ....."

 

[Chau Chee Yang]

Go to Advance Power Settings.

Set hard drive to turn off a minute or 2 before sleep.
Set Hybrid and Hibernate modes to "Off"
Under USB settings select "Disable"
Under Multimedia select "Allow ....."

No. It doesn't work. Your solution doesn't seems to have any relation to
my problem.

--
Best regards,
Chau Chee Yang

E Stream Software Sdn Bhd
URL: www.sql.com.my
SQL Financial Accounting

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Hi,

I have a PC with MAC Address "00:02:A5:BF:65F".

I sent a WOL magic packet to the PC from machine running Windows Vista but
the PC doesn't wake up.

I am sure the PC already configure properly with WOL enabled. I have a
Linux server in the network and I use the following command to wake up the
PC and it works:

/sbin/ether-wake 00:02:A5:BF:65F

I also can wake up the PC using any WOL program from any windows XP
machine.

I also turn on the following in my Windows Vista machine under the power
management of my network adapter as instructed in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941145 :

"Allow this device to wake the compute"
"Only allow management stations to wake the computer"

Is there any other setting I miss? Thank you.

So you are trying to wake up a particular machine up, and it works when the
magic packet is sent from a Linux machine, but it doesn't work from the
Vista machine?

What are you using to send the magic packets on Vista?

I use this:
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-gui.aspx

Command Line:
http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/wake-on-lan-cmd.aspx

But there is also this:
http://software.bootblock.co.uk/?id=wakeonlanex


Just a wild shot, but have tried turning of the Firewall on the Vista
machine to see if that makes any difference? I mean the sending machine,
not the one that needs to be awakened.

ss.

 

[Chau Chee Yang]

So you are trying to wake up a particular machine up, and it works when the
magic packet is sent from a Linux machine, but it doesn't work from the
Vista machine?

Yes. I send the magic packet from Windows 98, Windows XP or Linux
machine to wake up another PC and it works. But send the magic packet
from Vista machine to another PC and it doesn't work.

What are you using to send the magic packets on Vista?

I use Delphi to write my own program to send the magic packet. The
magic packet is broadcast packet of the following:

"FF FF FF FF FF FF" followed by sixteen repetitions of target computer's
MAC address.

Just a wild shot, but have tried turning of the Firewall on the Vista
machine to see if that makes any difference? I mean the sending machine,
not the one that needs to be awakened.

Yes, I have turn off the FireWall and it doesn't work either. Of course
we know the awaken machine has nothing to do with firewall as it is off.

Just for your information, all the test I described are doing in LAN
environment in domain 192.168.0.X.

--
Best regards,
Chau Chee Yang

E Stream Software Sdn Bhd
URL: www.sql.com.my
SQL Financial Accounting

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Yes. I send the magic packet from Windows 98, Windows XP or Linux machine
to wake up another PC and it works. But send the magic packet from Vista
machine to another PC and it doesn't work.


I use Delphi to write my own program to send the magic packet. The magic
packet is broadcast packet of the following:

"FF FF FF FF FF FF" followed by sixteen repetitions of target computer's
MAC address.


Yes, I have turn off the FireWall and it doesn't work either. Of course we
know the awaken machine has nothing to do with firewall as it is off.

Just for your information, all the test I described are doing in LAN
environment in domain 192.168.0.X.

I was planning to reply to you once I made some of my own tests once I got
my Vista machine running again. But I am unable to as I have some hardware
problems with it.

I did some Googling and found that there have been others that have had
problems as well. Try using the software mentioned in this thread, and see
if that works.

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1440827&SiteID=17

If it does work with that other software, you can narrow the cause of the
problem down.

ss.