On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 20:20 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:53 -0500, Brock Noland wrote: > > I have a linux box in a storage area in my house. However I would > > prefer to leave it off when I can. Does anyone know of a device I can > > use to turn the computer on/off remotely? Hopefully less than $100? > > If its a fairly current motherboard and NIC (made in the last 5 years?) > you can use Wake on LAN to power it up. And you can power it off at the > command line, if your APM/ACPI is set up properly. > > http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/mini-howto/ ... And the cheap device would be a linux based router such as the WRT54G from which to send the WOL packets.