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/
