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[vdr] Re: OT: WOL with 3Com 3C905B-TX



Hello!

Am Freitag, 22. März 2002 00:15 schrieb Matthias Queisler:
> Hey list,
>
> it's a little bit off topic but I searched the whole net without finding
> any hints for solving my problem. I just want to power on the vdr every
> morning at 8 a.m. because I don't want to let the vdr turned on the whole
> night. I downloaded wol-0.5.1-win32.zip from sourceforge. From what I have
> heard it is the best tool.
> No I made an ifconfig to get the mac adress of my 3Com 3C905B-TX (I
> verified the adress with taking a look on the card it self). So I typed
> "shutdown -h now" to shutdown the vdr. From my other pc (192.168.0.114 PC >
> 192.168.0.8 VDR) I typed "wol XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX. The program sayed "waking
> up...". But nothing happened. So I tried several other tools for wol but it
> still doesn't work.
> The NIC got a link to the switch so the WOL in the BIOS is activated.
> Now I was on it to put a second DVBs into my system and for this I had to
> pull out the NIC. When I was ready I pluged in the cable for the WOL again.
> And wonder suddenly the vdr started. So that means, that the wol from the
> mainboard works but not from the NIC.
> Can anybody help?

Yes. You need a special (yellow) cable connected between the NIC and the 
mainboard. These cables are delivered with the NIC itself.

  http://www.techmocracy.com/extremecooling/images/acctonnic/3.jpg

Andi

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