Wake On Lan not working now?

sickofusernames

Dammit, so annoying having to physically get up and press the power button! I can't really pinpoint a time when it stopped working but seems to be around the time I got my new netgear N300 (DGN2200), although can't see why it's blocking a magic packet.

My media server BIOS is fine for wol as are the network card settings (i think) and the power management for the card.

I've ran wireshark while running mc-wol.exe and other wake on lan tools and the udp packet is getting through - any other clues I might have missed?

Cheers, frustrated

John_Gray

Can you give a quick diagram of what your setup is? The router should be irrelevant, since you are really only using it as a hub/switch, not sending anything "through" it...

Which device is issuing the magic packets, and which is supposed to be woken up by it? On which port are you sending out the magic packets? Your WireShark monitoring surely only shows that the packets are being sent out - you obviously can't detect that the NIC on the sleeping/hibernating/powered off device is actually receiving them!

In my experience, once you get WOL to work, it works beautifully, even though it is a "throw out some data and hope it works" type of protocol!

sickofusernames

My media server has a fixed ip and it's wired to my router and everything else trying to wake it up is connected wirelessly - my laptop, ipad and ipod, none seem to be able to wake it up. Surely if wireshark is (when PC is awake) showing the UDP packets and nic card settings are ok for WOL then there must be a problem somewhere else.

I did try reinstalling the nic driver again and checking the settings but still nothing, the nic light shows a solid orange when PC is powered off, is this right as I can't remember?

sickofusernames

How odd, just moved the media server into the lounge, connected up to tv, plugged in mouse n keyboard, verified bios and changed nothing. Connected nic to switch behind tv, turned off PC and tried sending wol packets --- powers up fine from all power states and all my wireless devices!

I notice now that the nic card shows both solid orange and green, so something has changed, weird.

Delete this thread....

John_Gray

sickofusernames wrote: »

How odd, just moved the media server into the lounge, connected up to tv, plugged in mouse n keyboard, verified bios and changed nothing. Connected nic to switch behind tv, turned off PC and tried sending wol packets --- powers up fine from all power states and all my wireless devices!

It's the magic of computers - one day they don't work, and the next day they do! Glad it works now...