On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Ramagudi Naziir wrote: > On 1/4/07, Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 05:26:28PM +0200, Ramagudi Naziir wrote: > >> I know that PCI and USB devices can wake up a suspended linux machine. > >> My question is whether a serial port device can wake it up too ? > >Sure, why not? Most BIOSes have a page where you can tell what you > >want to use as a wake up source. > > How is it done in the hardware: via the RX line ? the CTS line ? I have no idea, vendor dependent. Just try it out. > and in the software ? do i need to register an interrupt on the wake-up > line ? > is there any relevant API I need to use ? You have to do nothing. BIOS should take care. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
