How to get Wake on LAN working for T60?

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How to get Wake on LAN working for T60?

#1 Post by Muse » Tue Apr 08, 2014 12:04 pm

Wake on LAN is enabled in the BIOS, I believe it's that by default. I have v.2.27 BIOS on this T2400 machine, Type: 1951-44U. The machine is connected by ethernet to my Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 802.11b/g wireless router. I'd like to be able to have this T60 go into suspend (as by virtue of 20 minutes of no activity) and be wakened by a request for data from it by another computer on the network, either ethernet connected to the router or by wifi. Can I do this?

In the BIOS it notes that WOL will not work if there's a Hard Drive Password set. I don't remember setting one up. Does this mean that the machine can't have a Windows password? It's currently running Windows XP Professional, off the factory recovery disks.

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Re: How to get Wake on LAN working for T60?

#2 Post by 91011 » Tue Apr 08, 2014 2:24 pm

The 'awake' computer needs to do more than send a request for data.
It has to send a 'Magic Packet' to wake up the suspended computer.
Lots of free programs - I've been using WOL - Magic Packet Sender for years.
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Re: How to get Wake on LAN working for T60?

#3 Post by RealBlackStuff » Tue Apr 08, 2014 2:45 pm

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Re: How to get Wake on LAN working for T60?

#4 Post by Muse » Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:15 am

You guys rock... thank you! :thumbs-UP:
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