[WEB4LIB] Turn them on with WOL (wake on LAN)

[Judit E. Sedillos]

Josh,

Are you looking for a solution to wake up these machines automatically in 
the morning?
Have you tried checking the BIOS settings (enter setup when the machine 
starts up, usually by pressing one of the F keys, like F2)? I have a Dell 
desktop with Windows 98 and have changed the "Auto Power On" setting to be 
on Weekdays at 7:50 a.m. I also saw a setting right below this one that 
must have to do with the WOL feature, but since my experience in changing 
BIOS settings only goes this far, I can't tell you much more...


Judit

At 12:56 PM 4/18/02 -0700, Josh Kuperman wrote:
>All of my computers for the public have WOL ( Wake on LAN ) NICs (
>Network Interface Cards ). It would be best if I could simply use that
>to turn them on in the morning. I don't think that was the intention
>of Wake on LAN but it seems like it may be possible. They are all
>Windows 98 machines.  I have no idea how to wake up machines that have
>the Wake-on-LAN feature. Obviously, I can't ping them because there is
>no IP address until after they boot.
>
>
>
>--
>Josh Kuperman
>josh at saratoga.lib.ny.us

Judit Sedillos
Computer Resource Specialist
UCSC McHenry Library
jsedillo at cats.ucsc.edu
(831) 459-4515

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