X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Can cron cause computer to wake up from hibernate? Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:43:44 -0700 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <1191311125.835797@slbhw0> <20071002163458.GA11003@mastermind> <007b01c805ac$7aa31100$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <007b01c805ac$7aa31100$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 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. -- Andrew DeFaria All computers wait at the same speed. -- 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/