[mythtv-users] WiFi support W-O-L?

[R. G. Newbury]

On 08/23/2010 09:25 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:

>     On 8/21/10 8:04 PM, Craig Huff wrote:
>
>         I'm trying to plan ahead for administrative tasks on a remote FE
>         that
>         will be using wifi for networking.
>
>         I'm wondering (haven't found anything on it by googling, yet)
>         whether
>         wifi cards support wake on lan or not.
>            I've done a little bit of research on various wifi card
>         chipsets, and
>
>     never come across anything like this. I think the most likely reason
>     is that wifi is generally not implemented in such a way that there
>     is power to the transceiver when the computer is asleep.
>
>         Furthermore, most of what goes on in a wifi connection happens in
>
>     software, not the wifi device's firmware; I don't think you'd be
>     able to even talk to a wifi device without an awoken CPU to act upon
>     the data being received.
>
>         You could use a standalone WAP that is connected to a hardwired
>         Ethernet
>
>     port on the sleeping machine, though. That would be my suggestion.
>
>     Try searching on "WOL" instead of W-O-L - and also see my recent
>     post on this.

There is a least one version of DD-WRT which enables a router to send a 
WOL packet to a computer. See the wiki page here:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WOL

But this appears to be for a WIRED lan connection.

Geoff