Cannot connect to a UPS on a usb port in FC3 using apcupsd

john bray jmblin at comcast.net
Wed Feb 16 08:52:44 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 02:40 +0000, waustin at speakeasy.net wrote:
> ( I sent this in earlier, but it appears to have bounced because I sent it from the wrong address. Apologies if it comes through twice)
> 
> I have a couple of APC ups's here and one of them connects back to my main machine via a USB cable.  Monitoring the UPS has worked very well for at least a year.
> 
> Recently (had an ap that wouldn't run on FC2 - had to have FC3) I upgraded the box to FC3. As anticipated everything else worked just fine - of course I had to add a line to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules which looks like
>         KERNEL="ttyUSB1",SYMLINK="pilot"
> to get my palm pilot to synch up normally.
> 
> I have been using apcupsd for some time to monitor the UPS; however, even after RTFM'ing the docs several times (and this list, and some others, and everthing else I thought relevent) I am still stumped.
> 
> To make a long story short, I suspect that what I am missing is the device name to use here - it would have been /dev/ttyUSB# under FC2 without udev, but under FC3 I don't know what device to list AND I dont' know the listing to put in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules.
> 
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> william austin                           waustin at grace.speakeasy.net
> "life is just another phase i'm going through... this time, anyway."
> 
> 
> 
> 

hey william -  i've got an apc box working via apcupsd in FC3.  it
points to DEVICE /dev/hiddev[0-15]

and appears to work like a champ.  

john





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