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Hackintosh phantom wake from sleep

For some reason since updating Mountain Lion on my hackintosh my computer would mysteriously wake up in the middle of the night. As sleeping and waking had never been 100% I figured that it was just down to a quirk of having a hackintosh. But I did some digging and after some searching and log investigation I found the following entries:


[~]$ syslog | grep -i "Wake"
May 19 00:55:57 : Next maintenance wake [Backup Interval]:  Sun May 19 01:38:25 2013 BST (approx)
May 19 00:55:57 : Requesting maintenance wake [Backup Interval]:  Sun May 19 01:38:25 2013 BST (approx)
May 19 00:56:03 : Wake reason: ?
May 19 00:56:03 : The USB device 4-Port USB 3.0 Hub (Port 3 of Hub at 0x14800000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (3)  

Which lead me to believe it was a config issue, and a quick look through the preferences un-earthed the following:

Energy Preferences

Disabling “Wake for ethernet internet access” has solved my problems and there haven’t been any phantom wake from sleeps since.