Tip: How I got my mini 2011 to sleep/wake !

I have a new Mini Server 20011 (Lion) for two weeks now (not used as a server). It wouldn't sleep nor wake, right from the first start-up. After going through all the discussions on this issue for several evenings, today I stumbled upon a solution that worked for me. I feel like sharing that!
There are a lot of discussions on this topic, with a lot of different situations mentioned. To make it more confusing it is also often suggested that a Mini Server will not sleep at all (seems logical).
Instead of going to sleep my Mini Server would only shut down the video signal instead (no blinking). When asked to wake up (or better: to return video signal) it would not react. The only option then was to shut it down with the power button and then re-boot.
Here is what has worked:
(Key seems to be going to sleep only once with no active connection to external devices.)
1) Connect only two devices: a screen and a wired Apple mouse
3) Manually turn of both airport and bluetooth from their icons.
4) Using wired mouse, select sleep from apple menu.
5) Mini immediately goes into sleep mode (pulsing light), wait a few pulses.
6) Wake up by moving wired mouse, wakes up immediately.
7) Restart airport card and bluetooth manually from icons, few seconds later, all hooked up.
After that wake/sleep is OK (also after next boot-up).
This appears to be a problem with many alternative sources based on your machine and configuration.
Most comprehensive posting above was by:
Il Dahu
Posts: 4
From: [Mont Chétif]
Registered: Nov 1, 2007
Re: MacBook Pro Sleep/Wake from sleep problem
Posted: Nov 5, 2007 5:39 PM in response to: pacostudio
(thanks anthonyhroy for referring to this post!)

Hey, it's a simple fix that should give most people what they want until there is full VZW support: the ability to use their card with the VZAM software. I didn't see anyone else offering that suggestion... If you don't want to use it, you don't have to.
At the very least, this does seem to prove the theory that this is an issue with the 32/64bit compatability that some have refuted.

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