Wake on Lan not in BIOS

[Pav Sidhu]

Hi, I want to try WOL and I've been trying to work it out all day from forum post to forum post.

I have a Pegatron Benicia 1.01 motherboard which DOES support WOL but I can't find the WOL option in the BIOS.

I have the American Megatrends 5.43 BIOS (I upgraded it to this version see if there would be an option but I have no luck)

I saw online that you can use a program called "BIOS Configuration Utility" by HP where you can edit BIOS settings from a file. I've downloaded it and I've had issues with that too! According the my research, the program requires "custom WMI namespace and WMI classes (at the namespace root\HP
\InstrumentedBIOS) provided by BIOS." So, with much more research, I found if you run WMI Tester, click connect and then type "root\HP
\InstrumentedBIOS)" and then type a list of scripts I will be able to use the program, but... an error saying invalid namespace appears! root\cimv2 works fine but not the one I want!

I've been at this all day, someone put me out of my misery.

 

[popatim]

WoL is in the network cards properties. (Device manage>rt click & select properies> settings tab I think)

 

[Pav Sidhu]

WoL is in the network cards properties. (Device manage>rt click & select properies> settings tab I think)

Yeah I've enabled all the necessary setting for my networking adapter, just my motherboard now, it's a pain...

 

[popatim]

It should be in the power section of the bios and you may need to add lan to the boot order first to see it.

 

[Pav Sidhu]

It should be in the power section of the bios and you may need to add lan to the boot order first to see it.

I just tried what you said, I moved the "Network Boot Group" to the 1st boot device in my boot order in BIOS but it didn't make a difference.