Wake on Wireless on Mac with WRT54GL

Yes, it does work.

First, your Mac must support Wake on Wireless. Macworld article how to check if your Mac support Wake on Wireless.

Then you need a Linksys WRT54GL router and Tomato (my favorite firmware). You can also use any other router and/or firmware. Only one thing matters: your router must support Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), also known as Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM). Wikipedia article.

Now log into your router running Tomato and under Advanced - Wireless enable WMM and save your changes.

Before you can test wake on wireless get your Mac’s MAC address. Once you have the MAC address put your Mac into sleep. From an another computer log into your router with a Tomato firmware, go to Tools - WOL, put your Mac’s MAC address into the MAC Address List folder and click on Wake Up.

Your Mac should wake up now :).

A notice:

Enabling Wake on Demand on your Mac means a new issue:  after your Mac goes to sleep it wakes up every two hours because of Bonjour. Here is the explanation for that (under “A comment in mDNSResponder’s open source code offers some explanation”).

I found a workaround to disable the every 2 hours wake up issue (notice: I didn’t try this workaround yet).

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Wake on Wireless, Mac and WRT54GL

Yes, it does work.

First, your Mac must support Wake on Wireless. Macworld article how to check if your Mac support Wake on Wireless.

Then you need a Linksys WRT54GL router and Tomato (my favorite firmware). You can also use any other router and/or firmware. Only one thing matters: your router must support Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), also known as Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM). Wikipedia article.

Now log in to your router running Tomato and under Advanced - Wireless enable WMM and save your changes.

Before you can test wake on wireless get your Mac’s MAC address. Once you have the MAC address put your Mac into sleep. From an another computer log in to your router with a Tomato firmware, go to Tools - WOL, put your Mac’s MAC address into the MAC Address List folder and click on Wake Up.

Your Mac should make up now :).