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    Wake on Lan question with dinovo mini

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by akash1221, Jul 1, 2010.

  1. akash1221

    akash1221 Notebook Guru

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    I've been googling for an answer to my problem and have found bits and pieces, just trying to confirm my conclusions.

    I have a laptop on which I'm running Windows 7 Pro x64. I want to use the laptop as a media center.

    I do not want to leave it on all the time and want to put it to sleep.

    I saw the dinovo mini and thought that it would be a very cool way to control the media center. It works great in that aspect.

    I set it up to put my laptop to sleep and that works great. However when i attempt to wake the pc up from sleep via the dinovo mini, it does not work. I have verified that my network adapter, and both the keyboard and mouse are set to allow the pc to wake from sleep.

    Below are my setting from my ACPI Sleep Button and the Logitech HID-Compliant devices, from Control Panel, Devices - Details of each device.

    If' i'm reading it right, it means that the dinovo mini will not support wake from d-3 state? Is my conclusion correct?

    Thanks,
    Akash

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    ACPI Sleep Button:

    Current power state:
    D0

    Power capabilities:
    00000089
    PDCAP_D0_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_D3_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_WAKE_FROM_D3_SUPPORTED

    Power state mappings:
    S0 -> D0
    S1 -> Unspecified
    S2 -> Unspecified
    S3 -> D3
    S4 -> D3
    S5 -> D3
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    Logitech HID-Compliant Keyboard Properties:

    Current power state:
    D0

    Power capabilities:
    0000007F
    PDCAP_D0_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_D1_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_D2_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_D3_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_WAKE_FROM_D0_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_WAKE_FROM_D1_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_WAKE_FROM_D2_SUPPORTED

    Power state mappings:
    S0 -> D0
    S1 -> D2
    S2 -> D2
    S3 -> D2
    S4 -> D2
    S5 -> D3
    ------------------------------------------------
    Logitech HID-Compliant Bluetooth TouchPad Properties:

    Current power state:
    D0

    Power capabilities:
    0000007F
    PDCAP_D0_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_D1_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_D2_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_D3_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_WAKE_FROM_D0_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_WAKE_FROM_D1_SUPPORTED
    PDCAP_WAKE_FROM_D2_SUPPORTED

    Power state mappings:
    S0 -> D0
    S1 -> D2
    S2 -> D2
    S3 -> D2
    S4 -> D2
    S5 -> D3
     
    akash1221, Jul 1, 2010
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  2. Nebelwand

    Nebelwand Notebook Consultant

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    This seems to be... a wireless keyboard? With a USB receiver?

    You need to look for a "Wake on USB" option in the laptop's BIOS (and even if you have that, success isn't guaranteed with wireless keyboards, from what I've read).

    If that option isn't there, check the laptop's manual if there's a specific USB port you're supposed to plug an external mouse or keyboard into. Wakeup requires standby power to be turned on, and not all USB ports may be powered in sleep mode to save energy.

    Wake on LAN is something entirely different (requires a special wakeup message sent from another computer directly to the target computer's NIC via ethernet).
     
    Nebelwand, Jul 1, 2010
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