Looking for recommendation on a Wake on Wireless LAN compatible PCI/PCI-E Adapter for Windows 7

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WOL works by sending a 'Magic Packet' to a network device. The network adapter triggers a wake up event when a broadcast frame and 16 subsequent frames with the MAC address are received.

In the past, WOL could not be enabled on wireless networks because hibernation / sleep would cause the wireless card to turn off.

Wikipedia WOL requirements states:

802.11 wireless interfaces do not maintain a link in low power states and cannot receive a magic packet


The good news is that there is a new standard called Wake On Wireless Lan (WoWLAN)

According to Revolution Wifi:

  • Integrated Adapters Required - The wireless adapter is required to be integrated onto the motherboard in order to control the power state of the workstation (this category also includes mini-PCI and mini-PCIe adapters). Newer motherboards and plug-in wireless adapters do not have the required power connector and cable as some older systems provided. Therefore, external adapters that are not integrated into the motherboard will not be able to control the power circuity and thus cannot support WoWLAN.

Because you are using a desktop, and WoWLAN is only available on wireless cards integrated into the motherboard (not running on the pci bus). If the following checkbox is greyed out, your card does not support WoWLAN.

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Microsoft Support Document on WOL in Windows 8

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    Mickey almost 2 years

    I deploy a ear with spring4, tiles 3.0.7, java 8 and in wildfly 11 but i get the following error:

    :45:18,865 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0060: Http management interface listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990/management 00:45:18,865 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0051: Admin console listening on http://127.0.0.1:9990 00:45:18,865 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) WFLYSRV0025: WildFly Full 11.0.0.Final (WildFly Core 3.0.8.Final) started in 15761ms - Started 915 of 1144 services (356 services are lazy, passive or on-demand) 00:45:19,773 ERROR Digester:789 - Digester.getParser: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: This parser does not support specification "null" version "null" at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.setSchema(SAXParserFactory.java:394) at __redirected.__SAXParserFactory.setSchema(__SAXParserFactory.java:158) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.getFactory(Digester.java:536) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.getParser(Digester.java:786) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.getXMLReader(Digester.java:1058) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1887) at org.apache.tiles.definition.digester.DigesterDefinitionsReader.read(DigesterDefinitionsReader.java:325) at org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.BaseLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.loadDefinitionsFromResource(BaseLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.java:150) at org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.loadRawDefinitionsFromResources(CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.java:234) at org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.loadRawDefinitionsFromResources(CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.java:225) at org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.loadRawDefinitionsFromResources(CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.java:225) at org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.loadDefinitionsFromResources(CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.java:203) at org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.loadDefinitions(CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.java:192) at org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.ResolvingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.loadDefinitions(ResolvingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.java:68) at org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.checkAndloadDefinitions(CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.java:174) at org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.getDefinitions(CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.java:131) at org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.getDefinition(CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.java:105) at org.apache.tiles.definition.dao.CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.getDefinition(CachingLocaleUrlDefinitionDAO.java:49) at org.apache.tiles.definition.UnresolvingLocaleDefinitionsFactory.getDefinition(UnresolvingLocaleDefinitionsFactory.java:89) at org.apache.tiles.impl.BasicTilesContainer.getDefinition(BasicTilesContainer.java:286) at org.apache.tiles.impl.BasicTilesContainer.isValidDefinition(BasicTilesContainer.java:273) at org.apache.tiles.renderer.DefinitionRenderer.isRenderable(DefinitionRenderer.java:64) at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesView.checkResource(TilesView.java:116) at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver.loadView(UrlBasedViewResolver.java:483) at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractCachingViewResolver.createView(AbstractCachingViewResolver.java:244) at

    I tried a lot of solutions but they dont works. I use tiles version 3.0.7

    Any idea?