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Wake from sleep or power off?
Authored by: Loren on Feb 20, '02 01:28:12PM

I can wake my dell computer at work, even if it is shut down. But it seems I can only wake my Powermac G4 (Quicksilver) if it is asleep.

Is there a setting somewhere I need to change?

Thanks,
Loren



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Wake from sleep or power off?
Authored by: Boris Darling on Feb 20, '02 07:05:31PM

Nope, and we can blame Apple. Wake on LAN is a feature built into the NIC (the Ethernet card), and then the OS must support it too. This is one of the things, in the PC world, that determines one the differences between a manufacturer's home computer line (like Compaq Prosario), and business computer line (like Compaq Deskpro).

I'm hoping that G4's will eventually get a firmware upgrade that will support this in OS X. But I'm not holding my breath...



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Wake from sleep or power off?
Authored by: digitalone on Dec 07, '02 10:10:20PM

I have a Quicksilver 2002 800mhz on 10.2.2 and I have never been able to use the "wake for Administrative access" function through ssh, eihter from a windowz machine or a Mac over the network. Are there any known issues, and how do I troubleshoot this issue? Apple doesn't really support this function because "it's in the command line", and nothing I've tried short of a firmware update [which I haven't done] works.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Sean the digital one...



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