Instruction Manual

October 2007 Page 14 Dell Enterprise Product Group
Section 3
Enabling WOL under Novell
®
NetWare
®
5.x
and 6.x
NICsandLOMsfromDellhaveWOLdisabledbydefault.Havingmorethan
onedeviceenabledforWOLinasystemcanoverloadthe3.3‐voltauxiliary
powersupplyandcauseittomalfunction.Dellstronglyrecommendsthatonly
onedevicebeenabledforWOLpersystem.ToenableWOL,create
aDOS‐
bootablefloppyandcopytheutility,listedintheToolssectionabove,specificto
theWOLdevicetoitfromtheDellOpenManagementServerAssistantor
downloaditfromhttp://support.dell.com
.

ThestepstoenablingWOLunderNetWare5.xand6.xareasfollows:

1. BootthesystemusingtheDOSfloppy,andrun‘IBAUTIL.EXE’,
‘UXDIAG.EXE–tABCD’or‘B57UDIAG.EXE–tABCD’.Theseprogramswill
displaythephysicallyinstalledadaptersandthestatusofeachcard’sWOL
setting.UXDIAG.EXEisfor
NetXtremeIIdevicesandB57UDIAG.EXEisfor
NetXtremeIdevices.

2. ChoosetheNICforWOL,recorditsMACaddress,andnoteitsnumberon
thelefthandsideofthedisplay.

a. EnableIntelWOLbytyping‘ibautil–nic=X–wole’whereXisthe
numberoftheNIC
inthedisplay.
b. EnableBroadcomNX1WOLbytyping‘b57udiag–w1–cX’whereX
isthenumberoftheNICinthedisplay.
c. EnableBroadcomNX2WOLbytyping‘uxdiag–cX–wol1’whereX
isthenumberoftheNICinthedisplay.

3.
RebootthesystemandstarttheNetWareserver.IfthemostrecentDell‐
provideddriversarenotinstalled,installthem.

4. ForIntelbasedNICsorLOMsnomodificationisnecessary,thedriverisset
upforWOLbydefault.ToturnoffWOL,usethe‘pmedisable=1’keyword
in
theloadline.Set‘pmedisable=0’tore‐enableWOL

5. ForBroadcombasedNICsorLOMS,thekeyword‘magicp=1’mustbeused
toenablethedriverforWOL.Setting‘magicp=0’disablesWOL,disabledis
thedefault.
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