wake on LAN

noir911 · 02-10-2009, 06:25 PM

I have setup wake on LAN for two of my laptops - IBM T60 and HP - from BIOS. But I wasn't given any "magic cookie" or anything like that. Both the laptops get Internet via 802.11g wireless. How would I wake them up from work? I am using wol(1) on Linux.

Thanks.

j-osh · 02-10-2009, 06:33 PM

So you set up the bios options for wake on LAN and want to wake them up over WLAN? Not sure that is possible. I set something similar up but I plug the laptop into a linksys router and the route sends the "magic" packets to wake the laptop up. I had to configure the router to send the WOL packets also. Wake on WLAN I think is another story though.