On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:10:40AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have never used a system with a NIC that actually has a special cable > for Wake-on LAN (my cheap NICs were always regular PCI ones without that > connection) and I haven't read the docs for wakeonlan, so I am not sure > if that makes a difference, but I always thought (and verified by > experiment for my hardware) that I needed to suspend the system for WOL > to work; starting a machine which had simply been powered off with the > shutdown command never worked. Again, maybe this is possible with > certain > hardware, but it would certainly be special.
Wake On LAN wakes a system from poweroff. There is no need to suspend or hibernate. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
