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    How do I enable Wake On Lan?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by MB W163, Jul 20, 2008.

  1. MB W163

    MB W163 Notebook Consultant

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    How Do i go about enabling WOL (wake on lan) for my vaio sz430? It is running XP and is usually using its wireless card. I dont know if that helps at all.

    Thanks
     
    MB W163, Jul 20, 2008
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Check the BIOS for WOL. For WoWLAN, i think its in the device manager
     
    flipfire, Jul 20, 2008
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    MB W163 Notebook Consultant

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    Hmm... I will have to check up on that. I already looked in the Wireless card settings and cant find anything related wot WOL or WOWLAn
     
    MB W163, Jul 21, 2008
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    Jamste Notebook Geek

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    You have to go to your bios setting during startup. Power and network, not sure
     
    Jamste, Jul 21, 2008
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  5. InfyMcGirk

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    I tried this with various network cards and your mileage may vary *a lot*. I got it working sometimes with my desktop PC, but only sometimes... which completely ruined the point of it (I needed to ensure I could wake the PC up from miles away, to work on it remotely). So in the end I needed to keep the PC on 24/7 instead. :(

    I'd be interested to hear if you can get this working reliably with your laptop and, if so, the setup you're using to send the WOL packets etc...
     
    InfyMcGirk, Jul 23, 2008
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