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Subject:	Re: Can cron cause computer to wake up from hibernate?
Date:	Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:43:44 -0700
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Dave Korn wrote:

> On 03 October 2007 06:14, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> Matthew Wozniski wrote:
>>> Hibernation does involve swapping everything in memory to disk, 
>>> freezing the state of all processes, and powering down the system. 
>>> But, the system being powered down does not mean that no part of the 
>>> system is receiving power. In fact, Wake On LAN technology is 
>>> designed to work on machines that are completely shut down - the 
>>> only caveat is that the motherboard reserves power for the network 
>>> card, and the network card scans for a particular magic packet 
>>> addressed to it. If that packet shows up, the computer turns itself 
>>> back on.
>> This would be the first time that I've ever heard of this. Forgive me 
>> for saying but do you have a reference?
> http://www.google.com/search?q=wake+on+lan
Sorry but that's a reference to "wake on lan" and from the article:

    Check "Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby"

Again - standby != hibernate.

Hmmm... Seems there is a way to do this as showing in 
http://hibernate.qarchive.org/downloads.html

I stand corrected.
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
All computers wait at the same speed.


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