On Monday 17 July 2006 19:24, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2006-07-17 at 18:46 -0400, James Knott wrote:
The only thing I'm aware of to do that, without external hardware, is wake on lan. However, that has to be done from the local network. The alternative, would be something like the X10 system, where you can dial in with a touch tone phone.
You can wake on almost any interrupt, depending on the bios. If that irq is the one coming from the modem (ring?), you got it. Or almost, because the computer must be simply suspended, not powered off.
I think there existed the possibility to wake on ring, and that some BBSs used it. Not very sure about it.
It the computer has a power up pin, it would be possible to use the ring line from the external modem to wake up the computer - but any ring, mind, even for a wrong number. And the power supply would be on full time.
An alternative would be having a router with some shell capacity, like sshing to it, then activating a wake on lan event to the internal lan somehow. Is there a router with that capacity?
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Get a Linksys WRT54G/GS/GL or similar router/firewall listed at http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DD-WRT_Docu_(EN) and flash them. SSH server and client as well as a WOL client are included. Leave this device and the DSL/cable modem on all the time and put the computer into whatever low power mode its WOL will respond to. There is now a simple method to flash the version 5 and newer Linksys WRT54G's that are based on Vxworks. Stan -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com