I tried to run newhidups myself with the debugging messages turned on and I got the following response:
debug level is '4' Checking device (0000/0000) (003/001) - VendorID: 0000 - ProductID: 0000 - Manufacturer: unknown - Product: unknown - Serial Number: unknown - Bus: 003 Trying to match device Device does not match - skipping Checking device (0463/FFFF) (002/002) - VendorID: 0463 - ProductID: ffff - Manufacturer: unknown - Product: unknown - Serial Number: unknown - Bus: 002 Trying to match device Device matches failed to claim USB device, trying 2 more time(s)... detaching kernel driver from USB device... failed to detach kernel driver from USB device... trying again to claim USB device... failed to claim USB device, trying 1 more time(s)... detaching kernel driver from USB device... failed to detach kernel driver from USB device... trying again to claim USB device... failed to claim USB device, trying 0 more time(s)... detaching kernel driver from USB device... failed to detach kernel driver from USB device... trying again to claim USB device... Unable to get HID descriptor (error sending control message: Operation not permitted) Checking device (0000/0000) (002/001) - VendorID: 0000 - ProductID: 0000 - Manufacturer: unknown - Product: unknown - Serial Number: unknown - Bus: 002 Trying to match device Device does not match - skipping Checking device (0000/0000) (001/001) - VendorID: 0000 - ProductID: 0000 - Manufacturer: unknown - Product: unknown - Serial Number: unknown - Bus: 001 Trying to match device Device does not match - skipping No appropriate HID device found Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.3) No matching USB/HID UPS found ------------------------------------ It seems like the kernel might already have a driver loaded, but I am not that familiar with the USB system. Thanks Michael Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Charles Lepple [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:41 PM To: Mike Hill Cc: nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] (no subject) On 11/15/06, Mike Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed the NUT 2.0.3 RPM for Fedora Core 4 and I have it > working with an MGE Pulsar Evolution 500, but I cannot get the USB > interface to work. > > When I plug in the USB cable I get the following message in my system > log: > > kernel: usbhid: probe of 2-1:1.0 failed with error -5 actually, this part is normal. The device is blacklisted from the kernel usbhid driver so that it can be claimed in userspace by newhidups. Did you see any error messages from the driver or other NUT components? -- - Charles Lepple _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser