Wake on LAN with P4PE-X/SE and Netgear FA311

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=F6rkel?=]

HI!

I am using a P4PE-X/SE with a Netgear FA311 network card (onboard
adapter is disabled) with Fecora Core 3. All components (board, adapter,
OS) should be capable of wake on LAN. Driver used is natsemi.

I have set the +5V jumper and enabled wake on keyboard, mouse and PCI in
the BIOS. Wake on keyboard and mouse works.

When shutting down, Fedora says "eth0 remains active for wake on lan".

ethtool reports wol enabled (ubg).

But when the computer is powered down, the light for this connection on
the router is off and that should stay on, AFAIR.

Also, it does not react on the magic wake-on frame being sent to its mac
address (tried 2 different tools for this).

I also tried under knoppix, because wol is supposed to work with that
for sure, but it does not either.

Any hints?

Thanks!

Thomas

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=F6rkel?=]

HI!

Just found out, that the FA311 does not support WOL. :-((

So, I will probably buy a FA312.

Thomas

 

[Robert Hancock]

HI!

I am using a P4PE-X/SE with a Netgear FA311 network card (onboard
adapter is disabled) with Fecora Core 3. All components (board, adapter,
OS) should be capable of wake on LAN. Driver used is natsemi.

I have set the +5V jumper and enabled wake on keyboard, mouse and PCI in
the BIOS. Wake on keyboard and mouse works.

When shutting down, Fedora says "eth0 remains active for wake on lan".

ethtool reports wol enabled (ubg).

But when the computer is powered down, the light for this connection on
the router is off and that should stay on, AFAIR.

Also, it does not react on the magic wake-on frame being sent to its mac
address (tried 2 different tools for this).

I also tried under knoppix, because wol is supposed to work with that
for sure, but it does not either.

Any hints?

Thanks!

Thomas

Curious why you're using that Netgear card instead of the onboard LAN..

 

[Bill E]

This because the card loses power on power down. Boards with onboard
network adaptors usually don't have WOL connectors. That lead that
came with the Netgear needs to plug into something to work..

 

[Robert Hancock]

This because the card loses power on power down. Boards with onboard
network adaptors usually don't have WOL connectors. That lead that
came with the Netgear needs to plug into something to work..

One of the newer PCI standards (2.2?) allows cards to continue to
receive power from the bus when the system is powered down, like for
WOL, without any power connector. That Netgear may not support this though.