Hi all,

in short, I have a netbook (HP DM1 1010sa) which I'm trying to wake remotely. Normally, it'll be connected to an old DSL modem acting as a switch which is plugged into the Virgin router/modem, but for testing it's just the netbook -> Virgin -> other machine.

I've got WOL working for roughly the first second after the netbook shuts down, otherwise it doesn't wake up again, which clearly is pointless! Anyway, I'm taking from this that the setting are ok, and the issue isn't with the issued packets.

I've updated the BIOS to the latest, and turned off 'LAN Power saving on DC', which is the only option relating to the NIC in there. Within Window (Windows 7 Prof 64bit) I've set up everything as I think it should be.

Both WOL options enabled: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm And allowing the machine to be woken via the NIC.

I've tried removing the 'Allow the PC to turn this device off' option, but doing this then greys out the 'Allow to wake' option.:(

So in summary, WOL works for about 1second after system shutdown, but not beyond this!

Anyway, any help from will be greatly received!

Joe.

Edit, figured I should add this is from 'off/shut down', but Sleep is fine.

Edited 9 June, 201115 yr by TriggerFish

Can you get a simple unmanaged hub and connect 1 PC and the netbook and try that - you might find that Virgin Media are blocking the WOL packets.

If this all works fine (for more than 1 second after shutdown), then I'd say this is the case..

I can try with a switch, but not a hub. Will give it a go though, thanks.

Do you have wake on lan setup in the bios menu also? might need to be set there to

Are you sure it supports WOL from shutdown? The BIOS needs to have a 'Wake up from PME (power management event)' option for waking from an S5 state. If not, then it may only support waking from sleep/hibernation.

I think it needs to be ACPI compliant to wake from being powered down, and there should be an option like 'Wake on LAN from S5'?

Are you sure it supports WOL from shutdown? The BIOS needs to have a 'Wake up from PME (power management event)' option for waking from an S5 state. If not, then it may only support waking from sleep/hibernation.

I think it needs to be ACPI compliant to wake from being powered down, and there should be an option like 'Wake on LAN from S5'?

+1

Try selecting the standby option in the shutdown menu. Does it wake from standby?

It wakes from standby/sleep with no issues at all, but from shutdown it's only possible within the first 5 seconds or so of it powering off and the NIC lights extinguish, which they don't on sleep.

The BIOS has nothing in it really, it's an HP netbook and the only LAN things are PXE boot (enabled, but irrelevant I'd guess) and 'allow this device (NIC) to be turned off on DC power' - disabled, again, irrelevant as the battery is removed.

Guessing that it's a setting it's missing then, thanks for your help though.