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Hello folks,

 

I have recently bought a Linkstation Live LS-CH500L and have been trying to get it to auto-power on over my wireless network from my WM2003 PDA. The Linkstation is connected directly to my Netgear WGT624v3 router with two PC's directly connected to the router via a wired ethernet connection. From both of these I am able to power on the linkstation by either using the NASNavigator 2 software (or sending a WOL packet using one of the utilities from here)

 

After reading various posts that stated that all the NAS PM service does is send a WOL packet approximately every 20 seconds I have tried sending a WOL packet using both vxUtil and Wake on Lan 1.1 for the Pocket PC as well as using MortScript to create a simple loop that calls a WOL program from the xda developers forum every 20 seconds however I canot seem to wake the linkstation from my PDA.

 

The Linkstation is in the same subnet with the same workgroup name as my PDA and other PCs the only difference seems to be that the magic packet is being sent over the wireless connection rather than wired. Reading around I seem to find conflicting information as to whether the auto-power feature works with wirelessly attached devices can the Linkstation Live be awoken from a wireless client sending a WOL packet? 

 

Thanks for any help,

 

Morpheus

You've pretty much hit the nail on the head and there isn't a way for this device to be kept alive via a wireless connection at this time. We are looking into a solution for this however.

   Thanks, looks like I will have to investigate the scheduled power management for now. Any idea if a solution is on the horizon or is it still a way off? Something I read suggestd that the structure of the magic packet from a wireless network was different due to extra header info being appended is this the reason oris it something else?

I'm afraid it's a way off Morpheus. As in it looks pretty bleak that a solution to this issue will emerge. My apologies.

   It justs gets more curious. I jave just purchased a netbook and decided to try and see if the NasNavigator (2.15) would work over its Wi-Fi connection to auto-power on my linkstation. Sure enough it worked so its obviously not as cut and dried as wi-fi or wired. My suggestions about the power management options could still do with fixing but as this works I have gone back to the preferred auto-power solution. I installed Linux on the netbook yesterday so it remains to be seen if the solution suggested on this forum works under linux over wi-fi but at least its now a possibility..