[Nut-upsuser] driver error

2011-09-14 Thread Steve Boyle
Hi,

I'm trying to install NUT on Ubuntu.  All is good until I try to start the 
driver, then I get this error:
$ sudo upsdrvctl start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.3
Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.34 (2.4.3)
USB communication driver 0.31
This APC device (051d:0003) is not (or perhaps not yet) supported
by usbhid-ups. Please make sure you have an up-to-date version of NUT. If
this does not fix the problem, try running the driver with the
'-x productid=0003' option. Please report your results to the NUT user's
mailing list nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org.

No matching HID UPS found
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)


I'm using an APC SmartUPS  1500 VA 120V RM2U, it is connected via USB.  I would 
appreciate any suggestions from the list.  Looks like apt-get install gave me 
version 2.4.3, apt also claims this is the latest version.

Thanks,
Steve Boyle

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Re: [Nut-upsuser] driver error

2011-09-14 Thread Charles Lepple

On Sep 14, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Steve Boyle wrote:


Hi,

I’m trying to install NUT on Ubuntu.  All is good until I try to  
start the driver, then I get this error:

$ sudo upsdrvctl start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.3
Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.34 (2.4.3)
USB communication driver 0.31
This APC device (051d:0003) is not (or perhaps not yet) supported
by usbhid-ups. Please make sure you have an up-to-date version of  
NUT. If

this does not fix the problem, try running the driver with the
'-x productid=0003' option. Please report your results to the NUT  
user's

mailing list nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org.

No matching HID UPS found
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)


I’m using an APC SmartUPS  1500 VA 120V RM2U, it is connected via  
USB.  I would appreciate any suggestions from the list.  Looks like  
apt-get install gave me version 2.4.3, apt also claims this is the  
latest version.


APC 5G units with that product ID are supported as of NUT 2.6.0, which  
is available in Ubuntu natty and later.


Usually we would encourage you to follow the advice in the error  
message, and add -x productid=0003 to the command line of the  
driver, but judging from the changes necessary to support these units,  
I think you would have better luck bugging the Ubuntu LTS folks for a  
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Re: [Nut-upsuser] driver error

2011-09-14 Thread Steve Boyle
Hi,

Actually, I just got it working.  I found this thread:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/6546

I downloaded the 2.6.1 source and found the entry I needed to add to 
52-nut-usbups.rules.  I also had to add productid = 0003 to the ups.conf file. 
Seems to be working now.

Are there new features for this the APC SmartUPS G5 that I would benefit from 
by upgrading to 2.6.x?

Thanks,
Steve Boyle


From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:48 PM
To: Steve Boyle
Cc: nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] driver error

On Sep 14, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Steve Boyle wrote:


Hi,

I'm trying to install NUT on Ubuntu.  All is good until I try to start the 
driver, then I get this error:
$ sudo upsdrvctl start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.3
Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.34 (2.4.3)
USB communication driver 0.31
This APC device (051d:0003) is not (or perhaps not yet) supported
by usbhid-ups. Please make sure you have an up-to-date version of NUT. If
this does not fix the problem, try running the driver with the
'-x productid=0003' option. Please report your results to the NUT user's
mailing list 
nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.orgmailto:nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org.

No matching HID UPS found
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)


I'm using an APC SmartUPS  1500 VA 120V RM2U, it is connected via USB.  I would 
appreciate any suggestions from the list.  Looks like apt-get install gave me 
version 2.4.3, apt also claims this is the latest version.

APC 5G units with that product ID are supported as of NUT 2.6.0, which is 
available in Ubuntu natty and later.

Usually we would encourage you to follow the advice in the error message, and 
add -x productid=0003 to the command line of the driver, but judging from the 
changes necessary to support these units, I think you would have better luck 
bugging the Ubuntu LTS folks for a backport of the latest version of NUT.
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Re: [Nut-upsuser] driver error

2011-09-14 Thread Charles Lepple
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Steve Boyle steve.bo...@connexity.com wrote:
 Hi,



 Actually, I just got it working.  I found this thread:

 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/6546



 I downloaded the 2.6.1 source and found the entry I needed to add to
 52-nut-usbups.rules.  I also had to add productid = 0003 to the ups.conf
 file. Seems to be working now.

Adding productid = 0003 is equivalent to the -x option mentioned.

 Are there new features for this the APC SmartUPS G5 that I would benefit
 from by upgrading to 2.6.x?

Not so much a feature as preventing problems down the road, you may
want to add the pollonly flag per this discussion from an APC
employee:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/2010-June/004847.html

(I didn't check that before; for some reason I thought pollonly wasn't
available in 2.4.3 yet)

-- 
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Re: [Nut-upsuser] driver error

2011-09-14 Thread Steve Boyle
Cool, thanks for the tip.  Most appreciated.

Regards,
Steve

-Original Message-
From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clep...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:07 PM
To: Steve Boyle
Cc: nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] driver error

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Steve Boyle steve.bo...@connexity.com wrote:
 Hi,



 Actually, I just got it working.  I found this thread:

 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.user/6546



 I downloaded the 2.6.1 source and found the entry I needed to add to 
 52-nut-usbups.rules.  I also had to add productid = 0003 to the 
 ups.conf file. Seems to be working now.

Adding productid = 0003 is equivalent to the -x option mentioned.

 Are there new features for this the APC SmartUPS G5 that I would 
 benefit from by upgrading to 2.6.x?

Not so much a feature as preventing problems down the road, you may want to add 
the pollonly flag per this discussion from an APC
employee:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/2010-June/004847.html

(I didn't check that before; for some reason I thought pollonly wasn't 
available in 2.4.3 yet)

--
- Charles Lepple

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