Working WOL w/ Apple USB Ethernet adapter!

[taenzerme]

I just set up my "Mini replacement" (GA-H77N-Wifi, i3 3225) and found out that the board does not support Wake On Lan with the integrated on-board ethernet card. I already ordered a Sonnet replacement but found out that using the Apple USB Ethernet adapter (in combination with an Apple Airport Express access point acting as Bonjour proxy) makes WOL work perfectly.

The "Mac" stays visible on my network and leaves deep sleep / sleep on network requests (ie. when accessing via Finder from another Mac or requesting screen sharing).

Maybe this works for someone else, too.

 

[sebus]

That is seriously expensive solution (two additional Apple products)

Any PCI-e Intel card does WoL fine.

As to USB Ethernet adapter WoL, problem seems to be the fact that USB ports do not supply any power, so the adapter does not stay active in full OFF state (not just sleep)...

 

[Ludacrisvp]

If you already have those Apple Components then there really isn't any added cost.