Instruction Manual

October 2007 Page 6 Dell Enterprise Product Group
Section 2
Using WOL after A/C Power Disconnect or
with no Operating System (OS) Installed
(Out-of-Box, or D0uninitialized)
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Dell’sNICsandLOMscanaccomplishWOLafterasystemhasbeenunplugged
fromallA/Cpower,thenreturnedtoA/Cpower,butnotpoweredon.Thisstate
isknownas“Out‐Of‐BoxWOL”or“D0uninitialized.”Thiscanbeusefulif
serverstobeinstalledpassthroughacentral
processingpointforpreparation,
andthenareinstalledataremotesite.
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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Out‐of‐Box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
.
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Note:BroadcomB5700andB5701basedNICsandLOMsdonotsupportWOL
inthisway.
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ThestepstoenablingWOLafterA/Cpowerdisconnectorwithnooperating
systemareasfollows:
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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.
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2. ChoosetheNICforWOL,recorditsMACaddress,andnoteitsnumberon
thelefthandsideof
thedisplay.
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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.