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Using WOL after A/C Power Disconnect or

with no Operating System (OS) Installed

(Out-of-Box, or D0uninitialized)

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.

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.

Note: Broadcom B5700 and B5701 based NICs and LOMs do not support WOL

in this way.

The steps to enabling WOL after A/C power disconnect or with no operating

system 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.

October 2007

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.

Enable Broadcom NX2 WOL by typing 'uxdiag –c X –wol 1'

where X is the number of the NIC in the display.

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