RE: [Nut-upsuser] Re: [Nut-upsdev] megatec driver and usb-to-serialconverters

2006-11-02 Thread Guillaume JAOUEN
Hi, I'll try this on my hardware when I'll have time to see what's happen and send you back the result. Best regards, Guillaume JAOUEN. -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bian.org] De la part de Peter Selinger Envoyé : jeudi 2 novembre 2006 03:54 À :

[Nut-upsuser] Re: [Nut-upsdev] megatec driver and usb-to-serial converters

2006-11-02 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
On 11/2/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the serial over USB devices that I have seen have used a manufacturer-specific hack. So connecting to a USB device should not usually be as simple as connecting to /dev/something. I was under that impression too, but I saw a discussion

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: [Nut-upsdev] megatec driver and usb-to-serial converters

2006-11-02 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
On 11/2/06, Doug Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I not sure if this helps, but Windows XP automatically supports serial to USB cables without installing any additional drivers.. There is probably some kind of spec... good luck finding it though. AFAIK, both Windows and Linux have a similar

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: [Nut-upsdev] megatec driver and usb-to-serial converters

2006-11-02 Thread Doug Reynolds
Carlos Rodrigues wrote: On 11/2/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the serial over USB devices that I have seen have used a manufacturer-specific hack. So connecting to a USB device should not usually be as simple as connecting to /dev/something. I was under that impression too,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Kjell Claesson
Hi Pedro, tor 2006-11-02 klockan 12:48 + skrev Pedro Côrte-Real: I have an MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 that I connected to my server using its USB cable. Nut seems to be working fine. I've done a power down test and it worked and came back up when the UPS had power again. I'm using the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/2/06, Kjell Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pedro, Hi It depends on what dist of Linux you are running. The new type use udev and hal and the old use coldplug. So little more info about your system please. I'm using Ubuntu edgy. That uses udev but since it's a server install it

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Kjell Claesson
Ok tor 2006-11-02 klockan 14:59 + skrev Pedro Côrte-Real: On 11/2/06, Kjell Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pedro, Hi It depends on what dist of Linux you are running. The new type use udev and hal and the old use coldplug. So little more info about your system please.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Arnaud Quette
Hi Pedro, 2006/11/2, Pedro Côrte-Real [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/2/06, Kjell Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pedro, Hi It depends on what dist of Linux you are running. The new type use udev and hal and the old use coldplug. So little more info about your system please. I'm using

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/2/06, Pedro Côrte-Real [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess /etc/hotplug/usb/libhidups isn't doing its job correctly on boot. Oh, and with your udev rules it works fine. Pedro. ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/2/06, Kjell Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you restart the upsdrv before you replug the ups, does it find the ups ? No it still doesn't. The thing is that you may start the nut to early. In what runlevel do you start nut ? I don't think that's it. Don't know if ubuntu have

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/2/06, Arnaud Quette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pedro, Hey everyone. Thanks for being so helpful. are you sure the owner / group doesn't change? lsusb doesn't show that. I didn't know where to look for the dev files. I'm running edgy too on the present laptop. I've not deeply gone

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Arnaud Quette
I've missed the attachment... 2006/11/2, Arnaud Quette [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Pedro, 2006/11/2, Pedro Côrte-Real [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/2/06, Kjell Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pedro, Hi It depends on what dist of Linux you are running. The new type use udev and hal and the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Arnaud Quette
2006/11/2, Pedro Côrte-Real [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/2/06, Pedro Côrte-Real [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess /etc/hotplug/usb/libhidups isn't doing its job correctly on boot. Oh, and with your udev rules it works fine. thanks for the feedback Pedro. I'll have to make a new deb release to

AW: [Nut-upsuser] Re: [Nut-upsdev] megatec driver and usb-to-serialconverters

2006-11-02 Thread Philipp Leusmann
Actually it is as easy as that. I just got a USB-to-serial-converter for my IR-receiver. All I had to do was compiling the proper kernel-module for my converter and then use /dev/ttyUSB0 Philipp -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: nut-upsuser-bounces+philipp.leusmann=rwth- [EMAIL

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/2/06, Arnaud Quette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and with your udev rules it works fine. thanks for the feedback Pedro. I'll have to make a new deb release to address this. Was it enough to diagnose the problem? As a side note, the long run approach will be using a new tool called

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Charles Lepple
On 11/2/06, Pedro Côrte-Real [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/2/06, Kjell Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pedro, Hi It depends on what dist of Linux you are running. The new type use udev and hal and the old use coldplug. So little more info about your system please. I'm using Ubuntu

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: [Nut-upsdev] megatec driver and usb-to-serial converters

2006-11-02 Thread Charles Lepple
On 11/2/06, Carlos Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/2/06, Doug Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I not sure if this helps, but Windows XP automatically supports serial to USB cables without installing any additional drivers.. There is probably some kind of spec... good luck finding

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Charles Lepple
heh, ignore my ramblings, I found the rest of the thread :-) On 11/2/06, Charles Lepple [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/2/06, Pedro Côrte-Real [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/2/06, Kjell Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pedro, Hi It depends on what dist of Linux you are running. The

Re: AW: [Nut-upsuser] Re: [Nut-upsdev] megatec driver and

2006-11-02 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Philipp, I am not sure whether we are all talking about the same thing (at least I am not sure if I am talking about the same thing as everybody else). One scenario is: (a) a UPS device that has a serial port, connected to a computer that has only a USB port, when a NUT serial driver is