Upgrade AirPort on Macs to support Snow Leopard's Wake on Wireless/WLAN?
- by wojo
Snow Leopard now supports Wake on WLAN, but not all hardware supports this. For example, my Octo Mac Pro from early 2008 has an AirPort card, but it does not support this. Nor does my 2007 2.33GHz MacBook Pro.
For reference to what is needed, look at http://www.macrumors.com/2009/08/28/a-closer-look-at-snow-leopards-wake-on-demand-feature/ which includes a screenshot of what the System Profiler should show.
It's pretty hard to find Apple parts, but is it possible to put newer cards into these machines to have them support Wake on Wireless?