Nut,usb and installation

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, david walcroft wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>> 
>> All the drivers listed as examples in /etc/sysconfig/ups are for devices 
>> connected by serial cable.
>> 
>> If your UPS is connected via USB, use MODEL=hidups.  (If that doesn't work, 
>> try MODEL=newhidups.  The only other USB-enabled driver is energizerups, 
>> but that's brand specific.)  The DEVICE will be something like /dev/hiddevX 
>> (where X is a digit.  The device will be created at startup, so you should 
>> not need an entry is /etc/udev/rules.d.
>> 
>> On boot, I see:
>> 
>>   Sep 10 12:43:20 yankee kernel: hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Device [APC
>>   Back-UPS ES 650 FW:818.w1.D USB FW:w1] on usb-0000:00:04.2-2
>> 
>> The device created is:
>> 
>>   # ls -l /dev/hiddev0
>>   crw-rw----  1 root root 180, 96 Sep 17 12:52 /dev/hiddev0
>> 
>> My /etc/sysconfig/ups has
>> 
>>   MODEL=hidups
>>   DEVICE=/dev/hiddev0
>> 
> Changed my "MODEL=[new]hidups" and booted both with no result,no /dev/hiddev* 
> is generated and syslog has errors:
>
> Sep 25 21:50:55 reddwarf upsmon[2105]: Set username on [david at reddwarf] 
> failed: Server disconnected
>
> Sep 25 21:51:05 reddwarf upsmon[2105]: Poll UPS [david at reddwarf] failed - 
> Write error: Bad file descriptor

Not sure what to suggest next.  Is the UPS cable plugged in?  Is the USB 
module (in my case, uhci-hcd) loaded?

>
> david
>
>
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 		Matthew Saltzman

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