MacBook Pro does not wake from sleep with lid closed reliably

[djbeta]

Hi there,

I have a new MacBook Pro that I want to use connected to a large monitor at work. While sleeping with the lid closed, I plug in a Mac USB keyboard and mouse, DVI cable, ethernet cable and power cord, then press the keyboard...

sometimes it wakes up and sometimes it doesn't.. opening and closing the laptop sometimes works.. and sometimes doesn't

Any ideas for how to get this to work reliably?

thanks

[Paul Derby]

Pressing the space bar on the external keyboard and waiting 20 seconds or right clicking the mouse and waiting 20 seconds seems to always wake up my MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo. If that doesn't work, I open and close the lid.