Re: HOW TO TURN ON COMPUTER?
Re: HOW TO TURN ON COMPUTER?
- Subject: Re: HOW TO TURN ON COMPUTER?
- From: Brad Allen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:53:25 -0500
At 4:31 PM -0500 9/19/02, email@hidden wrote:
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I don't know how to make an Applescript _wake_ the computer up. You
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might think this
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would be in the Finder dictionary, but it isn't. Any ideas about
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how to wake the computer from sleep?
Later model Macs support "Wake on LAN", a technology in which the
ethernet NIC card can wake up the computer when it receives a signal
sent to its unique MAC address from another computer or network
device. I don't know what Mac tools can generate a "wake on LAN"
signal, but I know it works because I've seen our network
adminstrator wake up Macs using a Windows-based network utility.
There must certainly be some Mac or Unix equivalent, although I
don't know what they are.
For this to work, you have to turn on "Wake for network
administrative access" in your Energy Saver control panel.
A Google search for "Macintosh Wake on LAN" turned up this link,
which discusses using a router to send a Wake on LAN signal:
http://www.computing.net/mac/wwwboard/forum/4635.html
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