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jalfrock

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September 7th, 2007 04:00

Dimension 4550 Wake on LAN

I have a Dimension 4550 and I can't get wake-on-LAN to work. Any suggestions?

I have the A08 BIOS. I've disabled "Low Power Mode" and the BIOS setting for my NIC is "On w/ PXE." In the PXE setup menu I've enabled "Legacy OS Wakeup Support" since I run Linux. I send the magic packet from another machine on the same network and...nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

J

PETER345

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September 7th, 2007 13:00

I successfully got a 4550 to WOL, but I don't remember the details. I do remember that each machine I tried seemed to only wake from certain states (e.g. might wake from standby but not power off).

I assume you are trying to wake from power off or hibernation. Do you see the link light active for the Ethernet connection?

I would try waking from standby first. You probably need to see the WOL options for the NIC in Windows device manager.

Peter

jalfrock

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September 7th, 2007 14:00

Yes, I've tried from S3 and S5, and yes, the light on the NIC is on. Wikipedia says the "legacy OS" setting might disable ACPI, so I tried changing that too (ie. tried it with that setting first enabled, then disabled). Still no luck.

Thanks for trying to help, Peter. Any other suggestions, anyone?

J

PETER345

5.8K Posts

September 7th, 2007 14:00

One more thing I can add is that when I was going through these same issues, no one on these boards offered any help. I suspect WOL is not very popular.

Good luck,
Peter

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