wake-on-lan

[kicon_kijin]

I wanted to purchase a bunch of network cards that supported wake-on-lan.
I am assuming that it should be compatiable with Fedora software, however I
have old computers and I wanted to know what the best cards would be that would
let me use the feature.

I have heard that they can connect to the power jumper cable on a stardard motherboard
so I think thats what I am going to need.

[trigpoint]

You are right, you do need to connect a jumper cable to the motherboard. Make sure your motherboards are WOL compatible though. Check in the BIOS for setting and there should be a small connector near some of the PCI slots.

I guess more or less any NIC will do, in general I find fewer problems with linux than windows these days.

As for software, I use a perl script from http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/

[kicon_kijin]

I have 1 computer that has lan boot up,
1 has PME wake up events,
1 has an older bios and needs and upgrade wich might show the feature.
1 my router computer does not have it but does not need it.

So does PME wake up events work and for the other computer will the BOIS upgrade
posibly fix the problem.