OT: Energizer USB UPS with nut

[Bob Chiodini]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 10:06 -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> Wondering if anyone could give me a little assistance here. I'm trying
> to setup monitoring of the UPS so the system can shutdown nicely. I have
> an Energizer ER-HM450 UPS. When I plug it in the system finds it as:
> 
> kernel: input: USB HID v1.00 Gamepad [Ver 1.0 USB To RS232 Interface
> (V1.0) BaudRate 2400bps] on usb-0000:00:03.1-1
> 
> Looking at the FAQ on the nut site makes me think I should have a
> section in the conf file that looks like:
> 
> 		driver = hidups
> 		port = /dev/usb/hid/hiddev0
> 
> problem is that /dev/usb/hid/hiddev0 does not exist. 
> 
> Anyone happen to have a configuration using an Energizer UPS they be 
> willing to share?
> 
> I'm running FC3 on kernel:
> 2.6.10-1.770_14.rhfc3.at #1 Fri Mar 4 11:34:31 EST 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Any other suggestion on ways to do this? 
> Is apcupsd better and/or easier to get setup?
> 
> Any help is appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> 
James,

A long shot, but does /dev/ttyUSB0 exist and talk to the UPS?

Bob...