Laptop No Power Button
I mangled my laptop's daughter board with the power button when my backpack fell off a chair. The board is in two pieces and no way to connect the traces (not even going into the other issues with that board.
I've been able to get it working again by shorting some pins in the connector to the daughter board, but I can't really do that with the case cover on. I have a replacement part (a miracle, assuming it works) ordered to come in in a few days. Hopefully that's the end of it and I've got a working computer after that.
What I need help with is how to make this work for the next few days. I have the bios open. I've enabled USB S3 wake-up. That will hopefully help with it in suspended mode. I think "Internal LAN" might be related to Wake on LAN, but I'm not completely sure. I've enabled it. The tool tip says "setting item to 'enabled' will allow the internal LAN to operate correctly. Setting item to 'disabled' will remove the internal LAN from PCI config space"
Assuming "internal LAN" does what I think it does, how do I set up Wake on LAN? I'm running Fedora if that helps. How could I get Wake on LAN working for me at work? Do I need to set up a router to connect to it to wake it up? Can I just hook another computer up to it and configure that to send a packet to it?