[oats-sig] RE: waking up PC's

many BIOS's do include wake on LAN capability, most usually either for directed packets or for magic packets(a simple UDP packet with a target MAC address repeat 16 times).  For the BIOS to do this, the network adapter firmware also needs to support wol, this can be checked in the operating system; network adapter advanced properties.

As I see it, the issue with waking a PC is that a device is needed to send either a directed or magic packet to the ethernet adapter.  So to convert a switch press into a directed packet should be extremely easy and could be done on a smart phone or PDA.  This is nonetheless another device.
.  Tom

*I think many BIOSs include wake on LAN, mouse and/or keyboard so
*perhaps you could do something with one of those? Keyboard with
*headstick or perhaps a hacked mouse button if you don't use the
*pointer usually? You'll get reduced battery life as some power will
*get consumed.
*
*So which BIOS's are fully accessible :-^
*
*Steve

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