{"id":1725,"date":"2011-06-03T15:58:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T22:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2011-06-03T15:58:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T22:58:30","slug":"enabling-wake-on-lan-on-a-toshiba-satellite-a505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2011\/06\/enabling-wake-on-lan-on-a-toshiba-satellite-a505\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Wake-On-LAN on a Toshiba Satellite A505"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post describes how I fixed my Wake-On-LAN problem using the <tt>powercfg<\/tt> tool.  My Toshiba Satellite A505-S6986 wouldn&#8217;t respond to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic_Packet#Magic_packet\">magic packets<\/a> sent over the network.<\/p>\n<p>Before using <tt>powercfg<\/tt>, I first checked the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li \/>Wake-On-LAN was enabled in the BIOS.\n<li \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Realtek_AdvancedTab.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Realtek_AdvancedTab\" width=\"332\" height=\"369\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Realtek_AdvancedTab.png 332w, https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Realtek_AdvancedTab-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/>All settings related to Wake-On-LAN were enabled in the adapter&#8217;s Advanced properties tab:\n<ul>\n<li \/>Shutdown Wake-On-Lan\n<li \/>Wake on Magic Packet\n<li \/>Wake on pattern match<br clear=\"all\">\n<\/ul>\n<li \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Realtek_PowerManagementTab.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Realtek_PowerManagementTab\" width=\"332\" height=\"369\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Realtek_PowerManagementTab.png 332w, https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Realtek_PowerManagementTab-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/>All wake-related settings were checked on the Power Management properties tab:\n<ul>\n<li \/>Allow this device to wake computer\n<li \/>Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer<br clear=\"all\">\n<\/ul>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Even with these settings configured properly, my laptop still wouldn&#8217;t respond to magic packets.<br \/>\nFirst, I opened a command prompt <b>as administrator<\/b>.  A regular user doesn&#8217;t have the access rights to change power options.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I checked to see if the LAN adapter is in the list of devices which can wake Windows:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"DOS\">C:\\Windows\\system32>powercfg -devicequery wake_armed\r\nHID Keyboard Device (002)\r\nHID-compliant mouse (001)\r\nLogitech USB Wheel Mouse (004)<\/pre>\n<p>The Ethernet adapter isn&#8217;t in there, so I looked at the list of wake-programmable devices in order to find out the name of my LAN adapter:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"DOS\">C:\\Windows\\system32>powercfg -devicequery wake_programmable\r\nHID-compliant device\r\nRealtek PCIe FE Family Controller            <=== LAN adapter\r\nHID Keyboard Device (002)\r\nTOSHIBA Software Modem\r\nHID-compliant mouse (001)\r\nHID-compliant consumer control device (001)\r\nLogitech USB Wheel Mouse (004)<\/pre>\n<p>Finally, I enabled wake for my Ethernet device, using the name \"Realtex PCIe FE Family Controller\":<\/p>\n<pre class=\"DOS\">C:\\Windows\\system32>powercfg -deviceenablewake \"Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller\"<\/pre>\n<p>(if you see an error like, \"<tt>Invalid Parameters -- try \"\/?\" for help<\/tt>,\" it most likely means that you mistyped the device name)<\/p>\n<p>I am now able to wake my laptop from sleep and hibernate modes using the <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=net.mafro.android.wakeonlan\">Wake On Lan app<\/a> for my Android device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post describes how I fixed my Wake-On-LAN problem using the powercfg tool. My Toshiba Satellite A505-S6986 wouldn&#8217;t respond to magic packets sent over the network. Before using powercfg, I first checked the following: Wake-On-LAN was enabled in the BIOS. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2011\/06\/enabling-wake-on-lan-on-a-toshiba-satellite-a505\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-windows-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}