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I use my laptop with 2 external monitors and external keyboard (I use it as a desktop at home), but when I go out I only take the laptop of course.
What bothers me is that I always have to open and close the lid just to press the power buton.
I dont have enough free space in my working area to keep my laptop's lid open, and I dont want to keep it that way either.

Is there a way I can wake-up/turn-on my laptop without opening the lid?

I dont have another computer in my LAN (just my laptop and router) so the wake-on-lan technique wont serve my needs.
Unless.... there would be some kind of device (a simple and small device) that connects to a LAN and sends the magic packet. But such a device would have to have a way to receive a MAC address as input from the user, so I don't think such a device exists at all.

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Check the BIOS if it supports wake-up on USB, then you can wake it up with an external keyboard.

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What OS are you using?

There should be many WakeOnLan utilities out there.

For Mac you could use this one: WakeOnLan

For Windows there are also a few out there: WakeOnLan 2, ...

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You need a second computer for wake-on-lan. As I said in my question, I only have one computer. But even if I had two laptops, what if they are both turned off? – GetFree Jan 24 '10 at 22:53
Missed that part... Than the answer of unkonwon (Google) should do it.. – road242 Jan 25 '10 at 9:14
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Maybe you should deactivate that it goes to sleep when you close the lid?

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I've edited a bit my question in case that was what caused your confusion – GetFree Jan 25 '10 at 7:33
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