Re: HOW TO TURN ON COMPUTER?
Re: HOW TO TURN ON COMPUTER?
- Subject: Re: HOW TO TURN ON COMPUTER?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:30:19 -0500
Thanks for the idea Brad, but there are two problems that turned up
when investigating the idea:
(1) you have to be connected to the internet for WOL to work
(2) you have to issue the command from another computer.
(1) is a bigger problem for me than (2). But this raises a good point,
which is that WOL knows how to wake up the
computer, so the trick is to find out what WOL knows and do it
independently.
Joe
On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 03:53 PM, Brad Allen wrote:
At 4:31 PM -0500 9/19/02, email@hidden wrote:
I don't know how to make an Applescript _wake_ the computer up. You
might think this
would be in the Finder dictionary, but it isn't. Any ideas about
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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