Microsoft Windows NT* and Windows 95 are not ACPI capable. Some settings are not available in these operating systems. See also the “Other Operating Systems” section below.
Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP* are ACPI capable. These operating systems do not support wake from S5 state, only from standby. When shutting down the system, they shutdown ACPI devices including the Intel PRO adapters. This disarms the adapters remote wake up capability. However, in some ACPI capable computers, the BIOS may have a setting that allows you to override the OS and wake from an S5 state anyway. If there is no support for wake from S5 state in your BIOS settings, you are limited to wake from standby when using these operating systems in ACPI computers.
The advanced settings tab in the Intel® PROSet software includes a setting called Enable PME for some adapters. To explicitly allow wake up with a Magic Packet from shutdown under APM power management mode, set this to Enable. See Intel PROSet help for more details.
In ACPI capable versions of Windows, the Intel PROSet advanced settings also include a setting called Wake on Settings. This controls the type of packets that wake up the system from standby. Click the Help button in Intel PROSet for a complete explanation.
In ACPI computers running ACPI aware operating systems such as Windows 2000, make sure the wake on standby option is enabled. To enable wake on standby, open the Device Manager and then navigate to the adapter properties tab Power Management. Check the setting “Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby”.
Other Operating Systems
In operating systems that do not
support remote wake-up technology, you can still use the Magic Packet method of
remotely powering up a computer. When the computer is first powered on, the
Intel® Boot Agent configuration utility can be invoked by entering CTRL-S when
the Boot Agent prompt appears on the screen. The configuration program has a
parameter setting titled Legacy OS Wakeup Support. If this setting is enabled,
the Boot Agent will pre-condition the adapter to respond to a Magic Packet wake
up event. This allows remote wake-up in operating systems that do not support
it. In early versions of the PRO/100+ Management adapter, this setting will not
appear, and is not needed.
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NOTE: The Legacy OS Wakeup Support feature is not available in early versions of the Intel® Boot Agent. To update your Boot Agent to the latest version, download 100PBOOT.EXE from support.intel.com and follow the included instructions. |
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