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@reddwarf]
failed: Server disconnected
Sep 25 21:51:05 reddwarf upsmon[2105]: Poll UPS [david@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
Clemson University Math Sciences
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