[126550] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Off-Topic: use laptop only as USB power supply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri May 21 00:03:46 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BF5D964.6010700@telcodata.us>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 20:57:08 -0700
To: Paul Timmins <paul@telcodata.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Every Mac laptop I have ever used has powered the USB ports whenever =
connected to AC or airline power, regardless of whether asleep or awake.
Not sure if it will power USB ports when powered, but, shut down or not. =
Have not tested that.
Owen
On May 20, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Paul Timmins wrote:
> I think the last dell business notebook I had my hands on has a bios =
setting that enables usb power when the laptop is off and plugged into =
the AC adapter.
>=20
> It's not on by default.
>=20
> If you have one, you may want to check.
>=20
> -Paul
>=20
> Matthias Flittner wrote:
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>> Hi there,
>> I'm not sure if anyone out there has an answer to this insane =
question:
>> But is it possible to use my laptop only has power supply via usb for =
my
>> mobile phone. Yes you heard right: I don't want to boot an operating
>> system I only want to charge my battery of my mobile phone. No fan =
should
>> be powered on. I only need voltage on the USB ports.
>>=20
>> Any suggestions? ;)
>>=20
>> best regards,
>> FliTTi
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