Etherwake is not waking anything!!! (?)

[flipjargendy]

I thought I posted this but maybe it was on another forum.

I've installed etherwake on my laptop. I want to use it to remotely start a computer in another room in my home. I will not always have access to this room. The computer I want to start is a server so I keep it in another room so it's out of the way.

I have looked at many howto's on this but it doesn't seem to be working the way it is explained in them.

I've set my BIOS to Enable Wake on LAN (WOL). And I've looked up my NI(SiS900 Fast Ethernet) to see if it actually was capable of WOL. It does.

This how I'm trying to wake the remote computer:

etherwake remote computer's mac addy

Any ideas?

Thanks :-)

[AmmoLin]

Not tried Etherwake, but I've got WOL (Wake On Lan). The MAC addresses have been saved in it so it is merely a choice of selecting the correct address, and it's in it's own little GUI box

Hope this helps...

How are you laying out the MAC address? Some require the colons, some don't??

[flipjargendy]

I've been using colons like xx:xx:xx:xx:xx. I've tried etherwake and wakeonlan. It seems like wakeonlan is a better app. However, I haven't used the GUI. How do you run that, is it a separate package?

[AmmoLin]

I've been using colons like xx: xx: xx: xx: xx. I've tried etherwake and wakeonlan. It seems like wakeonlan is a better app. However, I haven't used the GUI. How do you run that, is it a separate package?

Um, I've probably stuffed things but it's a Windows application Sorry!

Not sure about Etherwake.... Not used it...

[jacek2]

This is probably more than you need. I use this card to power ON/OFF my PC remotely from work. I just open my browser and click on power button then my home PC boots up or shuts down:

https://ool-43537bf6.dyn.optonline.n...b%20Button.htm