X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <1191311125.835797@slbhw0> <20071002163458.GA11003@mastermind> Subject: RE: Can cron cause computer to wake up from hibernate? Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 11:59:32 +0100 Message-ID: <007b01c805ac$7aa31100$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/