P4R800-VM Wake-on-LAN

[David Shorthouse]

Hey folks,

I have the above motherboard and have set-up a home theatre PC. I am
trying to implement wake-on-LAN to respond to pings, magic packets, etc.
because I have a web server running off it and don't want to leave it on all
the time...S3 suspend works best.

I can get this thing to wake-up with a magic packet on the LAN side, but
that won't be very useful from the WAN side because I am behind a router.
The power management settings for the 3COM onboard NIC suggest there are RWU
ARP, RWU Ping, StdbyWU Ping, etc., which to me implies that it should wake
with ping requests. I can only get this thing to wake with magic packets.
Anyone know how to correctly configure this NIC? What I am ultimately trying
to do is set-up a web server on this thing with an appropriately forwarded
port on my router such that a call to that address will wake the machine and
display its page. I have a Linksys LNE100TX ver. 5 in another machine that
does just that and hope the 3COM on this board can do the same.

Thanks,

Dave

 

[DanO]

Make sure in the BIOS you have WAKE/RESUME ON PCI Device enabled. Also, in
the device properties within windows for the NIC, make sure you check
"Enable this device to bring system out of stand-by"

This works for me in a similar set-up, although a slightly different Asus
MB.

 

[David Shorthouse]

Thanks, but there is no option in the BIOS for this board. However, WOL
Magic packets work just fine. NIC options configured to permit all forms of
WOL.

Dave