Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:02:59 -0500 From: javier perez <pepebuho.jp@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Cannot connect to a UPS on a usb port in FC3 using apcupsd To: jmblin@xxxxxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <bf3b772105021604026d937991@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:52:44 -0600, john bray <jmblin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 02:40 +0000, waustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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. > > > 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 > > > >I had a similar problem and now apcupsd sees the USB port. Now my >problem is that connection on localhost port 3551 is being refused. >What can I do? I checked the apcupsd page and did not see anything >other than please turn on the server. The server is on, at least on my >config file Here's the probs I ran into and finally got it to work: There is a section specific to FC3 and a 2.6 kernel in the manual, page 14. Here's the link for the online manual: http://www.apcupsd.org/3.10.x-manual/Checking-Out-Your-USB-Subsystem.html#Checking-Out-Your-USB-Subsystem I was able to see the USB connection with "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices", but there was no driver connection and the NETSERVER was not seeing it and port 3551 was refused. I used the ** BUS="usb", SYSFS[idVendor]="051d", NAME="usb/hiddev%n" ** statement in the "50-udev.rules" file. After that, works like a champ. I did this with a Back-UPS 750 ES USB initially and no problems. I reinstalled and switched to a Back-UPS 725 ES USB, and occasionally FC3 won't see the USB connection. I end up having to shutdown the Fedora box, switch the UPS off and on quickly and restart Fedora and all is well. (I think there is a hiccup in the UPS hardware...not sure). That is the short version of my hours of headbanging...any more specific questions, please post. Z
