Wake up main PC from laptop?

[Kenny]

Advent 9086 laptop with XP MCE, wirelessly connected to 3Com ADSL
modem/router.
Main PC has Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 m/b, using XP Pro/SP2 and all recent
updates. Hard wired to router using ethernet cable.
Am trying to wake the main PC from the laptop.
Have looked here:
http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-008459.htm
and here:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/netpm.mspx
but am confused by most of it.
Have enabled PME Event Wake Up in BIOS and enabled "Allow this device to
bring the computer out of standby" in the Properties of the ethernet
controller in Device Manager.
What do I do on the laptop to "wake up" the main PC?
Also which Suspend type in BIOS should I use, S1 or S3? As with the PME
Event, m/b manual just says it's there and doesn't explain what it is.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Advent 9086 laptop with XP MCE, wirelessly connected to 3Com ADSL
modem/router.
Main PC has Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 m/b, using XP Pro/SP2 and all recent
updates. Hard wired to router using ethernet cable.
Am trying to wake the main PC from the laptop.
Have looked here:
http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-008459.htm
and here:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/netpm.mspx
but am confused by most of it.
Have enabled PME Event Wake Up in BIOS and enabled "Allow this device to
bring the computer out of standby" in the Properties of the ethernet
controller in Device Manager.
What do I do on the laptop to "wake up" the main PC?
Also which Suspend type in BIOS should I use, S1 or S3? As with the PME
Event, m/b manual just says it's there and doesn't explain what it is.

This may be of some help...

http://winhlp.com/WxWOL.htm

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[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Hi
There is a mix up and some confusion about the term Wake On LAN (WOL).
Wake On LAN is a specific way to Start a computer that is Off through the
Network (Whether it was shut Off with Hibernation, or without is Not
relevant to the WOL process), http://www.ezlan.net/WOL.html
If the computer is Not Off it is an issue of how to get it out of Standby.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

[Kenny]

Thanks for the replies. Have been trying for a few days now but can't get
this to work
Have tried Magic Packet from AMD and Wake On Lan GUI, both tell me they're
sending the packet but nothing happens.
Don't really understand this
about defining ports.

:
"You have to prepare the system for Wake Up Over the Internet.

Open a Port thought the Router, and the Software Firewall (use high port
number so it will not conflict with any other port, 5850 is a good example).

Assign the port to the internal IP of the computer that you want to WOL (you
can use the port only for one computer).

Get this Utility it let you define a port for WOL.

Link to: Wake on LAN for Windows Graphical User Interface (WOL GUI)"

I use Zone Alarm free and can't see what to do there.

On the router setup there's a "Specisl Applications" but the boxes are:

Trigger Port

Trigger Type (TCP/UDP)

Public Port, what goes in there?

Public Type (TCP/UDP)

Enabled, checkbox

Clear button

Any help appreciated, I'm near ready to give up on this.


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Kenny

Hi
There is a mix up and some confusion about the term Wake On LAN (WOL).
Wake On LAN is a specific way to Start a computer that is Off through the
Network (Whether it was shut Off with Hibernation, or without is Not
relevant to the WOL process), http://www.ezlan.net/WOL.html
If the computer is Not Off it is an issue of how to get it out of Standby.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Open a Port thought the Router, and the Software Firewall (use high port
number so it will not conflict with any other port, 5850 is a good example).

Assign the port to the internal IP of the computer that you want to WOL (you
can use the port only for one computer).

Kenny,

that can hardly work, because a computer that is not running has
no IP address.

I believe it works only if the router offers special support for
this case. You have to use a broadcast address, such as
192.168.0.255, but even that will normally not work, unless the
router provides some special help.

In other words, it is a difficult proposition, unless the router
offers a specific function for this. Read its manual. Use
Google.

In theory it should be possible to install a helper module on
one computer in the LAN that is always running and that wakes up
another computer. I don't remember having seen such a tool
though. If anybody knows, please chime in. If no computer is
running, only the router or special hardware can help, in
theory.

Hans-Georg