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Upper nvram is now also readable on mainboards with VIA's VT8233 south bridges.
Lots of new mainboards supported out-of-the-box
Some minor bugs fixed.

See HISTORY for full details

NVRAM WakeUp found its way into Debians unstable tree:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/nvram-wakeup

Special thanks to Tobias Grimm and others who worked on the Debianization and will maintain the Debian packages.

Linux-Magazin 08/2004, p.71-72
Weckdienst -- Computer programmgesteuert aufwecken

This article is available online: http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2004/08/wakeup/wakeup.html

Upper nvram is now also readable on mainboards with
+ VIA's VT8235/37 south bridges.
+ nVidia nForce2 chipset.
+ ATI RADEON 9100 IGP chipset.

Lots of new mainboards supported out-of-the-box

There is a full article (four pages) about NVRAM-Wakeup in the recent issue (10/2004) of the German c't magazine (http://www.heise.de/ct/), on page 182.

This is basically a bugfix release. (two small bugs in guess and guess-helper)

This is a feature release.

Upper nvram is readable now on some mainboards (see README and/or man pages for more details)

Lots of new mainboards supported out-of-the-box

this version is mainly a maintainance release. A LOT of new mainboards were added and are detected now automatically.

Afew minor fixes were made.

enjoy the new release.

The Project was mentioned in the recent issue (7/2003)
of the German c't magazine (http://www.heise.de/ct/), on page 202.

nvram-wakeup is released in versions 0.05 and 0.90

while 0.05 is the last release of the "old" versions and can be considered stable (after nearly one year the only change is the addition of a couple of new boards)

the 0.90 release is a large rewrite. nvram-wakeup now autodetects the motherboard, is able to read configuration files and hasn't be recompiled for new boards any more.

enjoy

This is a (small) program that can read and write the WakeUp time in the BIOS (via /dev/nvram on recent 2.4.x kernels). On this WakeUp time the computer will be powered on automatically from the soft-off state.

Version 0.04a is a bugfix release. Download it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/

The changes are:
* Fixed the problem with the daylight savings.
* Some mainboard updates.... read more

This is a (small) program that can read and write the WakeUp time in the BIOS (via /dev/nvram on recent 2.4.x kernels). On this WakeUp time the computer will be powered on automatically from the soft-off state.

Finally I released the new version 0.04 of the package. Download it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/

Some changes are:
+ Added several new predefined motherboard configurations.
+ Completely rewritten many parts of the main program.... read more

In the recently released version 0.03 a bug was introduced. The fix is now available.

(see Download or Patches section)

This is a (small) program that can read and write the WakeUp time in the BIOS (via /dev/nvram on recent 2.4.x kernels). On this WakeUp time the computer will be powered on automatically from the soft-off state.

Finally I released the new version 0.03 of the package. Download it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/

Some changes are:
+ Automatically detects if rtc clock is running local or UTC time.
+ Added several predefined motherboard configurations.
+ New command line option to pass all output to syslogd.... read more

This is a (small) program that can read and write the WakeUp time in the BIOS (via /dev/nvram on recent 2.4.x kernels). On this WakeUp time the computer will be powered on automatically from the soft-off state.

Finally I managed to release the package I promised one month ago.
Download it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/

Today I started the NVRAM WakeUp Project on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/).
Hoping to upload the first release tomorrow.