Re: wakeonlan
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:10:40AM +0200, hh.eu@gmx.de 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.
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