ups with nut and hal

[Bill Davidsen]

Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> 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. 
> 
I run GNOME, and all I did was plug in the cable. I have a power icon on 
the bar, and I can configure what it does. So trouble-free that I'm 
about to reinstall my firewall from Slackware to take advantage of the 
pain-free "just works" capability.

I would love to monitor several UPS from a single machine, but I don't 
really have time to test.

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