Enable/disable wake on admin access in 10.2.8

Oct 09, '03 10:38:00AM

Contributed by: David

I just updated to 10.2.8 and, at least on my laptop, the old checkbox in the Energy Saver pane for enabling and disabling 'Wake on admin access' is gone ... but ... we can still use pmset.

So, here is how to enable wake on admin access:

sudo pmset womp 1
To disable it:
sudo pmset womp 0
BTW, womp stands for "wake on ethernet magic packet."

[robg adds: This is the first I've heard of losing the Network Admin checkbox with 10.2.8 -- can anyone else confirm? It's still there on our G3/500 and PowerBook...]

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