How to detect if hardware is Wake-on-LAN able ? network card or BIOS feature?
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From: Camille Petersen on 5 Jan 2010 11:44 Assume I am sitting in front of a computer (from a friend). How can I find out if the hardware supports Wake-on-lan? Is this feature dependent from the BIOS of the motherboard or from the network card? Camille
From: DL on 5 Jan 2010 12:18 bios "Camille Petersen" <cpet_magnus(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4b436c68$0$6730$9b4e6d93(a)newsspool2.arcor-online.net... > Assume I am sitting in front of a computer (from a friend). How can I find > out if the hardware > supports Wake-on-lan? > > Is this feature dependent from the BIOS of the motherboard or from the > network card? > > Camille >
From: SC Tom on 5 Jan 2010 13:03 "Camille Petersen" <cpet_magnus(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4b436c68$0$6730$9b4e6d93(a)newsspool2.arcor-online.net... > Assume I am sitting in front of a computer (from a friend). How can I find > out if the hardware > supports Wake-on-lan? > > Is this feature dependent from the BIOS of the motherboard or from the > network card? > > Camille > Both, depending on where your NIC is. If it's an onboard NIC, the primary settings are in BIOS, even though there may be the same settings in the NIC properties. If it's an add-in NIC, the primary settings will be in the card's properties, and the BIOS settings will probably have no affect on those settings.
From: SC Tom on 5 Jan 2010 13:04 "Camille Petersen" <cpet_magnus(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4b436c68$0$6730$9b4e6d93(a)newsspool2.arcor-online.net... > Assume I am sitting in front of a computer (from a friend). How can I find > out if the hardware > supports Wake-on-lan? > > Is this feature dependent from the BIOS of the motherboard or from the > network card? > > Camille > Both, depending on where your NIC is. If it's an onboard NIC, the primary settings are in BIOS, even though there may be the same settings in the NIC properties. If it's an add-in NIC, the primary settings will be in the card's properties, and the BIOS settings will probably have no affect on those settings. -- SC Tom
From: Jose on 5 Jan 2010 14:19
On Jan 5, 11:44 am, cpet_mag...(a)hotmail.com (Camille Petersen) wrote: > Assume I am sitting in front of a computer (from a friend). How can I find out if the hardware > supports Wake-on-lan? > > Is this feature dependent from the BIOS of the motherboard or from the network card? > > Camille Do this on the system in question: To eliminate questions and guessing, please provide additional information about your system. Click Start, Run and in the box enter: msinfo32 Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information back here. There will be some personal information (like System Name and User Name), and whatever appears to be private information to you, just delete it from the pasted information. |