ups with nut and hal

[Amadeus W.M.]

Does anyone have nut with hal working for a ups connected to a usb port?

I'm trying to get mine to work, and the docs say gnome-power-manager 
should pop-up and let me see and do things, but nothing happened. 

lsusb sees the ups on a usb port, but that's all I can say. I believe no 
driver is being loaded for the ups, so probably hal (or maybe udev) is 
not doing what should be doing. I'll be happy to provide any necessary 
information to figure this out. I'd appreciate any clue from anyone who 
has this thing working under hal. 

Thanks!