<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Tortise <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tortise@paradise.net.nz">tortise@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Wilga" <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users2@dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu" target="_blank">mythtv-users2@dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu</a>><br><div class="im"></div><div class="im">
On 8/21/10 8:04 PM, Craig Huff wrote:<br>
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I'm trying to plan ahead for administrative tasks on a remote FE that<br>
will be using wifi for networking.<br>
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I'm wondering (haven't found anything on it by googling, yet) whether<br>
wifi cards support wake on lan or not.<br>
I've done a little bit of research on various wifi card chipsets, and <br>
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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.<br>
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Furthermore, most of what goes on in a wifi connection happens in <br>
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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.<br>
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You could use a standalone WAP that is connected to a hardwired Ethernet <br>
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port on the sleeping machine, though. That would be my suggestion.<br>
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Try searching on "WOL" instead of W-O-L - and also see my recent post on this.</blockquote><div><br>This is also often known as "wowlan". Try searching for that.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>
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