i'm looking for a power switch for a printer in a remote location.
the printer is only usede every then and now, but it always takes me
some time to go there to turn it on.

so i thought about buying an ip controlled power switch, but these
things are relatively expensive.

so i had the idea to use a pc network card with wake-up-on-lan
functionality to control a relais, turning on the printer.

i have no idea if this really works, as i don't know how to connect such
a network card. will this work when just supplying 5v to it's wol
connector, or does it really have to sit in a pci slot?

as far as i remember, calling the card's mac address rises the wol
signal, so this would work to control the power relais.
but does the wol signal stay high forever then?
how can i turn the wol signal off again?

thanx!
tino

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