[Sussex] Re: i dont get this!!!!!!!!

Geoff Teale tealeg at member.fsf.org
Tue Jul 5 21:43:50 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 05 July 2005 21:44, you wrote:
> hi guys, i came to the worthing bcf on sunday 3rd july and met the motley
> crew running the stall, i would like to say thanks to nick for helping sort
> out my internet problem, but now i seem to have another one! i have done as
> advised and installed the new network card and cable for the internet,
> which comes through my very annoying ntl box(but thats another story!) and
> it works fine but now when i shut my pc down as soon as it recieves a
> signal from the set top box it restarts, even if someone only changes
> channel it springs into life, how can i get round this without having to
> unplug the cable everytime i shut down? please someone save wot is left of
> my sanity
>  thanks tracie

Hi,

I know nothing about NTL boxes but it sounds like you're getting a 
"wake-on-lan" signal.  Usually you can disable this in your machines BIOS.

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Geoff Teale
Free Software Foundation




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