Hi Patrick, 2006/4/2, Patrick Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Arnaud, > > Just wanted to let you know the the Belkin F6H500ukUNV is working for me > with the fentonups driver. > > http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?IWAction=Load&Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=202840 > > I originally tried it with the genericups driver with upstype=7 but this > gave me 'On battery' 'Low Battery' all the time. I went through all the > upstype settings but none worked. > I then tried the 'bestups' driver but this never worked. > > However the fentonups driver does seem to work for me. It correctly > identifies online and on battery events. It also recognises the 'Low > Battery' event. > One thing I have noticed is that it always reports the battery charge as > 100% - but this might be down to the ups. I've never used this type > before so don't know if it does report its battery charge.
imho, this is due to the fact that fentonups has a lookup table for each models, defining the way to compute some values, like battery.charge... > I tested it by pulling the supply to the ups. It got the 'on and then > the 'low battery' upsmon then shutdown my system. The ups however > remained on. the ups shutoff (hardware ups shutdown) seems not to be working. Carlos might have more ideas on the cause... > I'm using the Ubuntu Dapper 2.0.3-4build1 nut package > > The Belkin is connected using the serial cable but this is through a > usb/serial convertor. so the port is /dev/ttyUSB0 > > The fentonups driver identifies the Belkin as 'BELKIN PowerPure > aster' (Not a mis-type it is 'aster') probably a fentonups bug (I've previously seen that kind of truncation...) > Anyway - I just wanted to let you know and also thankyou for you work on > nut. as there are chances that the fentonups will also be replaced by the megatec driver, can you give a try to it with the NUT 2.1 in subversion: http://eu1.networkupstools.org/source.html @Carlos: can you check to update the compat list, and further testing with Patrick? Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D Dpt Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser