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.