Re: Wake-on-LAN with Belkin USB Adaptor

Hi Thomas,

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, thomas erdmann wrote:

> i am using a Belkin 11MBit USB Adaptor and it works quite good with the
> at76c503 driver :-),
> but is there an option to wake up another computer by it's Network Adapter.
> The USB is under power, the Control LED shows this. I send the "magic packet"
> with the wol-0.0.7 package to the NIC Adress of the Card, but it doesn't wake
> up.
> Has onyone this working or can give some useful tips ?

Do you want to wake up the computer where your USB adapter is connected?
I doubt this will work, as receiving a data packet from the USB adapter
requires the local computer to be alive (USB host controller running,
interrupt processing in the host). I doubt that USB defines a method to
wake up the host by some USB device signalling at all (incl. USB-wired
Ethernet adapter). AFAIK, with USB all data transmissions are
initiated by the host controller.

/Jörg