I barely know what to ask.

[iamimdoc]

I am not exactly sure what to ask so I need a little/lot help

I have an old DELL desktop that will go to sleep as desired. "Wakes up" easily with touch of keyboard

I can get VNC remoter working OK - I can view, mouse, work on the remote PC, etc. So far so good.

The remote DELL PC bios is configured:
ACPI suspend type : S3 (my only choices are S1 and S3)
Wake up by PCI : Enabled

So I put the PC to sleep and press WAKE on the VNC. "WAKE ON LAN Packet sent!", says it. Nothing happens

I try to Start my session with the remote PC and I get back: "Disconnected. Remote PC 'DELL PC' Port 5900 refused the connection.
This usually indicated the remote PC is not running a VNC server in the specified port..."

The VNC server on the Dell says under connections " Accepts connections on port 5900"

I hit any key on the keyboard and the PC wakes up. And I can reconnect with my IPAD

[I have no real idea what I am doing. I just read these instructions on the internet.]

So

Is there something else I am supposed to do to get my IPAD to wake up the Dell remotely without the keyboard pressing step.

Thanks in advance for help

[raf]

Hi,
You need to make sure your Dell machine supports Wake-On-LAN. You might need to enable this in the BIOS. Also, most computers only support wake-on-lan for ethernet connections. Please contact Dell for details on how to enable this for your system.

Hope this helps,
Raf.