Question Smartab STW1800 WOL Support

[Torukai]

I picked up a cheapy but otherwise decent Win10 tablet - Smartab STW1800.

I am trying to enable Wake on LAN from a hardwired USB ethernet adapter. I've tried two adapters that both say they support WOL and neither one is succeeding in the waking part. I have other more traditional PCs on the LAN that I can wake so this whole thing isn't completely foreign to me. This is the first time trying a tablet PC however.

1. The driver within Windows has Wake on Magic Packet enabled.
2. I've seen it as a fix but this install of windows doesn't have the "turn on fast startup" option under the power settings.

I've looked through the rather expansive BIOS options but can't find where they might have hidden it, provided it even exists.

Looks like it is using American Megatrends core version 5.011 but at the bottom of the BIOS it says version 2.17.1249.

Windows 10 (1903) if it matters.

I tried Smartab (Southern Telecom) support but they were basically useless. No BIOS documentation and since the tablet has WIFI he couldn't comprehend why I would want to hardwire into a network. He also didn't know what Wake on LAN was.

 

[Alabalcho]

The problem is not in that tablet' BIOS, it is in your Ethernet connection. You have two tasks:

• Find an Ethernet-to-USB adapter which supports WOL;
• Configure your tablet to be woken up by USB

I have never heard of first one. Wakeup by USB is more or less standard.
If I was you, I would not care about WOL, just turning the display off.
ANd what do you expect as specialized customer support for $100 devices from a vendor who won't be there tomorrow...
If WOL is so important - get a second-hand laptop with hardwired Ethernet.

 

[Torukai]

Task 1 is done, as I said I have two such adapters in the OP. Both claim they support WOL. The drivers for both within Windows have WOL support listed and enabled.

Task 2 however, I cannot find anything specific within BIOS to be awoken by USB - or any power options really. There was an option to boot from the adapter though - so the BIOS is seeing it and knows of its existence. But booting from (PXE) and waking from (WOL) are not the same thing. WOL happens prior to PXE.

Thank you for your colourful opinions otherwise. They, however, don't change the question.