Re: [Nut-upsuser] USB Belkin

2005-12-03 Thread Peter Selinger
It's not included in v2.0.2, but it will be included in the next v2.0.3, and it is also included in the Development version in CVS. http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html for information on how to obtain the sources from CVS. -- Peter David L. Day wrote: Hi - I've seen some notes on

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT + Cyberpower AVR1200 (BC1200) + FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-03 Thread Peter Selinger
list, and not to me personally. -- Peter doug reynolds wrote: Peter Selinger wrote: Hi Doug, looks like you should try to start the driver manually, and with debugging enabled. ./drivers/cyberpower -DD -a hiveups This should give additional information on why the driver does

[Nut-upsuser] Re: Question on Belkin UPS

2006-01-04 Thread Peter Selinger
Dear Ashley, I have no personal experience with the Tower-Rack series, but someone reported on the Nut-upsuser mailing list on 29 Nov 2005 that these models work with the belkin driver of the NUT software (http://www.networkupstools.org/). This is for the serial port. For USB, the NUT newhidups

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: Question on Belkin UPS

2006-01-04 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Ashley, yes, try the newhidups driver. It should work. If there are problems, we can improve the driver. -- Peter P.S. please keep the mailing list cc'd. Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote: The software that Belkin includes is the Bulldog software. They do offer a

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Xserve, USB, NUT

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Selinger
Ted Bardusch wrote: OK, I've installed libusb and gd (for the cgi stuff). I have the UPS connected, and built NUT with newhidups. but now I need to know what to set the ups.conf port to. Any ideas on that? Please see the newhidups(8) man page, section IMPLEMENTATION. IMPLEMENTATION

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problems suse 9.3, ellipse premium 500

2006-02-03 Thread Peter Selinger
This is a permissions problem; note the nobody in: /proc/bus/usb/002: dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Feb 3 12:40 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Feb 3 12:40 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43 Feb 3 12:40 001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root nobody 52 Feb 3 12:40 002 This should be the ups user. The solution is

Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups and hidups drivers

2006-02-22 Thread Peter Selinger
it to something more intuitive before the next release. any idea what's going on? steve Peter Selinger wrote: Steve, use newhidups, not hidups. You should do either this: ./configure --with-drivers=newhidups make (to compile only the newhidups driver - saves a lot

Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups and hidups drivers

2006-02-22 Thread Peter Selinger
-tared the source * i configured for the build with: o ./configure --with-user=nut o make o make usb * then i ran make install but none of the usb drivers showed up in /usr/local/ups/bin any idea what's going on? steve Peter Selinger wrote

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Status of tripplite_usb driver?

2006-02-22 Thread Peter Selinger
Looks like a permissions problem. USB drivers require some special setting-up. They key is to start by running the driver with -u root. I wrote some instructions for APC/newhidups at http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/ups/backups.html; they might help. -- Peter Gregory Gulik wrote: I

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Status of tripplite_usb driver?

2006-02-23 Thread Peter Selinger
communicates with the driver through a socket that is owned by the driver. The ups.conf file has the following: [tripplite] driver = tripplite_usb port = auto desc = Tripp-Lite 1500RM XL2U This is on Fedora Core 4 if it makes a difference. Peter Selinger wrote

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Nova 1100 using newhidups on netBSD 3.0

2006-02-27 Thread Peter Selinger
usb_os_find_devices: couldn't open device /dev/ugen0.00: Permission denied Looks like a permissions problem to me. Who owns /dev/ugen0.00? Perhaps you have to run the driver with -u root, until it works, then set up hotplugging. -- Peter Nevil Thatcher wrote: Hi Arnaud, Thanks for the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problem after reboot

2006-03-02 Thread Peter Selinger
Arjen de Korte wrote: I tried running the driver on its own: destiny:/usr/local/ups/bin# ./apcsmart /dev/ttyS0 -x cable=3D940-0024C Network UPS Tools (version 2.0.2) - APC Smart protocol driver Driver version 1.99.7, command table version 2.0 getpwnam(nut): Success

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problem after reboot

2006-03-03 Thread Peter Selinger
? -- Peter Peter Selinger wrote: No. The 'getpwnam(nut): Success' should not be displayed by the driver as far as I can tell. Throughout the sources, the word 'getpwnam' is only used to display a fatal error when NUT isn't able to locate a userid, in this case for 'nut'. Where

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Misreported values with newhidups

2006-03-04 Thread Peter Selinger
; make; make install). Please report back to the list. Thanks! -- Peter Arnaud Quette wrote: 2006/3/1, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is a duplicate bug report. It was first reported by Gordon Rowell on Feb 06 on the Nut-upsdev list, and has subsequently been fixed in CVS. See

Re: [Nut-upsuser] [2.0.3] upsd.conf: Permission denied even if

2006-04-20 Thread Peter Selinger
aerios wrote: Hello all, I'm new to nut, i've donwloaded and installed without problem apparently nut 2.0.3 on a slackware 10.x (1 i think). /usr/local/ups/bin/upsdrvctl start seems to work correctly. but when i do: /usr/local/ups/sbin/upsd i've got: Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.3

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex MARS

2006-04-23 Thread Peter Selinger
decimal poin= t. I'll too need to take a look at those logs (taken when the UPS is fully charged), posting them to the list is a good idea. On 4/23/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could the reason be that the UPS reports voltage to more than one decimal, and the value used

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex MARS - SUCCESS !

2006-04-24 Thread Peter Selinger
lonely wolf wrote: Secondary question: as you can see at http://wdl.lug.ro/ablerex/upsilon.status.screen (and http://wdl.lug.ro/ablerex/upsilon.config.screen ), upsilon reports: ACfail Shutdown Delay: 1440 Min UPS Turn Off Delay : 10.0 Min 1440 min = a 24h (maximum allowed

Re: [Nut-upsuser] No USB/HID UPS found

2006-05-06 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Vlado, your issue seems to be an issue of lower-level USB support. Not only does NUT fail to find your ups, but it fails to find *any* USB devices or controllers. Normal output from newhidups -u root -D auto should look like this: Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.1.0)

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Various NUT issues/questions

2006-05-12 Thread Peter Selinger
Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H wrote: Hi, FINALLY got my UPS working, YEA But now it brings up even more issues.. (BOOO!!) 1) I'm thinking this is a UPS issue, but when I pull the plug on my UPS, it goes from 100 to 30 in just a short amount of time (Minutes). This causes

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite OMNI1000LCD

2006-05-12 Thread Peter Selinger
-upsdev around November 7 involving Joel Peshkin, and also posts by Dean Gibson ca. Nov 26. -- Peter Joseph Scanlan wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006, Joseph Scanlan wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006, Charles Lepple wrote: However, Peter Selinger has made some changes post-2.0.3 to better handle

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Various NUT issues/questions

2006-05-12 Thread Peter Selinger
Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H wrote: You did not configure your shutdown scripts correctly; see item 11 under Configuring shutdowns for low battery events in INSTALL. Your computer is supposed to power off (after going through the usual shutdown procedure) by letting the UPS know to

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Various NUT issues/questions

2006-05-12 Thread Peter Selinger
Try poking around in /etc/rc.d, /etc/rc.d/rc.0. There is a reasonable explanation of how BSD init scripts work, with example scripts, at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/bsd-init.txt My understanding is that rc.shutdown is called before the actual shutdown procedure, and

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite OMNI1000LCD

2006-05-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Joseph Scanlan wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Peter Selinger wrote: There is a temporary fix. Check out the thread on nut-upsdev around November 7 involving Joel Peshkin, and also posts by Dean Gibson ca. Nov 26. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/2005-November/000318

Re: [Nut-upsuser] SVN Newhidups driver

2006-06-03 Thread Peter Selinger
Are you sure this is an error message? It looks like a warning to me. If it works with -D, it should work without -D - the only difference is whether debug messages are printed or not. Of course, you would not expect the driver to output anything. It should run silently without the -D. -- Peter

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Fedora 4 Nut 2.0.3-0.1.fc5 INIT.D not working

2006-06-03 Thread Peter Selinger
Pete, /sbin/service is just a shell script that calls the appropriate script in /etc/init.d/. You should look at your /etc/init.d/ups to see what, if anything, it does. I have simply put this in my rc.local: start_ups_driver() { /usr/bin/upsdrvctl start /dev/null } start_ups_daemon() {

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: SmartLink UPS - Suggestions as to which serial

2006-06-04 Thread Peter Selinger
You can use strace(1) to track the system calls the software makes, which should allow you to monitor the communications and figure out the protocol. -- Peter gypsy wrote: gypsy wrote: Although this SmartLink comes with a Linux program to monitor it, I'd rather use nut if possible.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Recommended UPS to buy for use with NUT?

2006-06-04 Thread Peter Selinger
can expect at a given load, so just buy one that says you get at least 20 minutes for some reasonable load. -- Peter Arjen de Korte wrote: Peter Selinger wrote: I am running a home box (600watt total load, may expand to 800-900) and I need a UPS that can sustain power to that for at least

Re: [Nut-upsuser] nutups with MGE Evolution via USB

2006-06-09 Thread Peter Selinger
usb_submit_urb() is a kernel function. Error code 28 is ENOSPC, which means no space left on device, which is a strange error to occur in this context. It does not look like a NUT problem to me. -- Peter Rodrigo Ventura wrote: I'm getting dmesg flooded with messages like this one:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Trouble Configuring NUT with Gamatronic USB

2006-06-14 Thread Peter Selinger
Eli, Gamatronic is not currently supported by the newhidups driver. You have two options: (1) look at the file data/driver.list or http://www.networkupstools.org/compat/ to find a serial driver that matches your device, and/or (2) post the output of newhidups -DD -u root -x

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Trouble Configuring NUT with Gamatronic USB

2006-06-14 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Eli, sorry, I forgot to say: you should first get and compile the newest development tree of NUT from the SVN repository. The -x generic flag will not work with 2.0.3. See http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html -- Peter Eli Wapniarski wrote: Hi Peter Thanks for responding.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Trouble Configuring NUT with Gamatronic USB

2006-06-16 Thread Peter Selinger
for notifications... Keeps on repeating the same thing over and over again until I press Control C. Eli On Wednesday, 14 =3DD7=3D91June 2006 18:52, Peter Selinger wrote: Hi Eli, sorry, I forgot to say: you should first get and compile the newest development tree

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Trouble Configuring NUT with Gamatronic USB

2006-06-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Eli, you should be doing the next step. Run the driver and upsd (not upsmon), and see what output you can get from upsc. -- Peter Eli Wapniarski wrote: OK... Waiting for whats next Eli On Friday, 16 =D7=91June 2006 18:02, Peter Selinger wrote: Yup, that's fine. It doesn't matter

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Trouble Configuring NUT with Gamatronic USB

2006-06-16 Thread Peter Selinger
): No such= =20 file or directory Synchronizing.. giving up ups.conf contains. [Gamatronic_D-Compact] driver=3D newhidups port =3D auto desc =3D Gamatronic D-Compact Eli On Friday, 16 =D7=91June 2006 18:40, Peter Selinger wrote: Eli, you should

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Trouble Configuring NUT with Gamatronic USB

2006-06-17 Thread Peter Selinger
Eli Wapniarski wrote: upsdrvctl -D -u root start produces Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.1.0 Starting UPS: Gamatronic_D-Compact exec: /usr/bin/ -a Gamatronic_D-Compact execv: Permission denied Driver failed to start (exit status=1) I think I understand the problem

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Trouble Configuring NUT with Gamatronic USB

2006-06-19 Thread Peter Selinger
Arnaud Quette wrote: gamatronic units are also supported by the gamatronic driver (much derived from the old sec driver). You should give it a try. About the newhidups issue, the given path might refer to some SEC protocol. But that needs some decoding (ie get the data for each path,

[Nut-upsuser] Re: UPS data.

2006-07-24 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Chris, I am cc'ing this to the nut-upsuser mailing list. Chris Hotte wrote: Hello Peter! First of all, allow me to thank you in advance for all the work and information you have assembled on UPS devices. I'm currently (not a pun) investigating UPS solutions for my Linux based

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Gentoo Ultra USB UPS

2006-08-02 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Barry, Jonathan, etc, I just caught up with this thread. Yes, I agree with Jonathan's diagnosis that this might be a HID device, although it is not 100% sure. The many Input features make me suspicious that it could still be a fancy serial-over-USB. [ A general remark to anyone on this

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite Smart1000LCD driver problem

2006-08-07 Thread Peter Selinger
Phil DeBoest wrote: Peter Selinger wrote: I have just committed some changes to the development branch that hopefully solve this problem. Now I retrieve the HID descriptor in two different ways, and when in doubt, use the second value (the same as lsusb). I have also made libusb_open

[Nut-upsuser] Re: Tripp Lite LCD models w/ NUT

2006-08-07 Thread Peter Selinger
: 164.0 output.voltage.nominal: 120 ups.beeper.status: enabled ups.delay.reboot: 65535 ups.delay.shutdown: 65535 ups.mfr: Tripp Lite ups.model: TRIPP LITE UPS ups.power.nominal: 1200 ups.serial: 692199 B ups.status: OL CHRG -James -Original Message- From: Peter Selinger

[Nut-upsuser] Re: Tripp Lite LCD models w/ NUT (DETAILS)

2006-08-07 Thread Peter Selinger
James, thanks, this is useful info. Comments below. -- Peter James Pooton wrote: I saw on the list that you were looking for some details. Sorry I'm not part of the list, but here are my results: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./newhidups -DDD -u root [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network UPS Tools:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Will MGE-UPS Ellipse USBS auto shutdown?

2006-08-13 Thread Peter Selinger
Daniel O'Connor wrote: --nextPart2732627.jUZ38zfOrR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 13 August 2006 16:49, Peter Selinger wrote: Not all UPS hardward and not all drivers support ondelay

Re: Fwd: [Nut-upsuser] Will MGE-UPS Ellipse USBS auto shutdown?

2006-08-13 Thread Peter Selinger
Ben wrote: On 8/13/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, Not all UPS hardward and not all drivers support ondelay/offdelay. In any case, you should let your system shutdown script kill the UPS, at the very end, after all the disks have been mounted read-only, and just

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite Smart1000LCD driver problem

2006-08-14 Thread Peter Selinger
Yes, that is helpful. It seems that your Tripp Lite has different bugs than James's. That means it will be more tricky to fix. In any case, I am glad to see that the driver is now working. The bugs are minor and only affect how the voltages are displayed. -- Peter Phil DeBoest wrote:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problem detecting USB/HID UPS

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Brian, Tripp Lite support for this model was only added in the last few weeks; your NUT 2.0.3 is too old. You should get the very latest development version from the SVN repository. Follow the instructions on http://eu1.networkupstools.org/source.html under Development Tree. You should then

Re: [Nut-upsuser] CPS GS 1500U

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Selinger
Matt, Cyber Power was not supported by NUT in 2.0.3. However, it is supported now, so you should upgrade NUT to the newest development version from SVN. Follow the instructions at http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html under Development tree. You should use the newhidups driver. -- Peter

Re: [Nut-upsuser] powercom user problem

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Martin Ivanov wrote: 1. How to make the UPS power off after the PC powers off in case of power failure. Of course when there is no power failure, but I issue shutdown command to the system, the UPS must not power off. The answer to this question in contained in the file INSTALL that is

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problems with APC Smart-UPS 1500 USB and, newhidups

2006-08-25 Thread Peter Selinger
Paolo, I recently fixed some bugs regarding the report descriptor retrieval. Please try it with the newest development version from SVN. You can follow the instructions at http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html under Development tree to get it. It might solve the problem, or if it

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problems with APC Smart-UPS 1500 USB and, newhidups

2006-08-25 Thread Peter Selinger
Great! Please let the mailing list know if you run into any further problems. -- Peter Paolo Pedroni wrote: Alle 16:38, venerd=EC 25 agosto 2006, hai scritto: Paolo, I recently fixed some bugs regarding the report descriptor retrieval. Please try it with the newest development version

Re: [Nut-upsuser] suse linux and nut

2006-08-25 Thread Peter Selinger
Dear Marc, first, the 'powercom' driver is a serial driver, so it will not work for USB. Second, newhidups does not currently support Powercom. The reason is simple: this is (as far as I remember) the first time we are seeing a Powercom USB device. It might not be too difficult to add support

Re: [Nut-upsuser] suse linux and nut

2006-08-25 Thread Peter Selinger
Marc Collin wrote: Le vendredi 25 ao=C3=BBt 2006 21:51, vous avez =C3=A9crit=C2=A0: Marc, interesting, actually, we have seen this device before; see the posts by Barry Fawthrop around August 1. It is a HID device, but it does not follow the USB HID standard for power devices. So

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-08-26 Thread Peter Selinger
That is very odd indeed. Why should the system shut off abruptly? If the log shows nothing, then it seems that the UPS just turned off the power. I recommend testing this while attaching, say, a lamp to the UPS, instead of a computer. (You can still use your computer to monitor the UPS, just

Re: [Nut-upsuser] suse linux and nut

2006-08-26 Thread Peter Selinger
Marc Collin wrote: linux64:/home/collinm/Download/trunk # /usr/local/ups/bin/upsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] driver.name: newhidups driver.parameter.port: /dev/hiddev0 driver.version: 2.1.0 driver.version.data: PowerCom HID 0.1 driver.version.internal: 0.30 powercom.coll2.feature3: 1

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problems with APC Smart-UPS 1500 USB and, newhidups

2006-08-28 Thread Peter Selinger
Paolo Pedroni wrote: Anyway, I have found something in the debug output that does not seem norma= l, and maybe you may want to check it. The relevant output (/lib/nut/newhidups -DD -a SmartUps1500) is as follows: (snip) Waiting for notifications... upsdrv_updateinfo... Waiting for

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-08-28 Thread Peter Selinger
. This would yank the power from your UPS. In the above setup, you would see the lamp go off as the computer is preparing to shut down. -- Peter Peter Selinger wrote: That is very odd indeed. Why should the system shut off abruptly? If the log shows nothing, then it seems that the UPS just

Re: [Nut-upsuser] suse linux and nut

2006-08-30 Thread Peter Selinger
Arnaud Quette wrote: Hi 2006/8/27, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... What's to do here for the NUT developers is: first, improve support for interrupt transfers in newhidups. right, as we still rely on the (very) early code I first wrote. moreover, the big nested if in update

Re: [Nut-upsuser] suse linux and nut

2006-08-30 Thread Peter Selinger
Arnaud Quette wrote: 2006/8/30, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnaud Quette wrote: Hi 2006/8/27, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... What's to do here for the NUT developers is: first, improve support for interrupt transfers in newhidups. right, as we still

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-04 Thread Peter Selinger
on the NUT site, but maybe not the correct ones? Rob Peter Selinger wrote: Rob wrote: What would I be looking for that I didn't see in my testing with my windows box? Should I be trying to sniff the serial connection to see if the UPS is for some reason sending a weird signal

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite OMNI900LCD

2006-09-08 Thread Peter Selinger
Charles Lepple wrote: On 9/8/06, Hans Fugal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Tripp Lite OMNI900LCD. ... I can't get newhidups to recognize it at all. Support for newer Tripp-Lite USB/HID models is still in the development tree (the trunk in SVN). Instructions for grabbing it via

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite OMNI900LCD

2006-09-08 Thread Peter Selinger
OK, in any case, once Hans gets the development version of NUT, he can then produce enough debugging output so that we can hopefully support the model. -- Peter Marc Collin wrote: Le vendredi 8 septembre 2006 15:35, Peter Selinger a =E9crit=A0: Charles Lepple wrote: On 9/8/06, Hans Fugal

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-10 Thread Peter Selinger
Rob wrote: I would try the following: plug your computer into a wall outlet, plug a desk lamp into the UPS. First, start the driver and upsd (but not upsmon). Monitor the ups variables with upsc. Pull the power, wait 5 minutes or more, see what happens. Are there changes to ups.status?

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-10 Thread Peter Selinger
Rob wrote: While plugged into the wall: battery.charge: 100.0 battery.runtime: 64:41 driver.name: cpsups driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS2 driver.version: 2.0.4 driver.version.internal: .04 input.frequency: 60 input.voltage: 122 output.voltage: 122 ups.load: 9 ups.mfr:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Build 2.0.4, usb.h missing.

2006-09-12 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Magnus, I didn't understand your compiler's error message (they were not in English). However, it seems that you need to install libusb, version 0.1.8 or later, before compiling nut. I wrote some instructions for setting up NUT with the APC Back-UPS at:

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown after 5 minutes?

2006-09-15 Thread Peter Selinger
After what's been said here, and the data that Rob sent, it seems that the UPSs are faulty; I cannot think of any reason why they should yank the power after 5 minutes, without any warning sign, and with brand new batteries. Even stranger that it still does this when the power is interrupted only

Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups, udev, usb, and frustration

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Selinger
Denis Hainsworth wrote: holy crap. just rpm'd the hotplug stuff for fc3. added an appropriate line to usb.usermap and a script that changes permissions and group and it just worked. Excellent. I have added your device F6C550-AVR (050d/0551) to our standard hotplug scripts in SVN as well.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups usb interface claiming warning

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Selinger
Denis Hainsworth wrote: usb 1-1: usbfs: process 32652 (newhidups) did not claim interface 0 before use so I found two places where supposedly you guys have added code to address the above issue I am having. Maybe you can tell us what two places you are talking about? -- Peter As far

Re: [Nut-upsuser] newhidups usb interface claiming warning

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Selinger
Denis Hainsworth wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:54:32AM -0300, Peter Selinger wrote: Denis Hainsworth wrote: usb 1-1: usbfs: process 32652 (newhidups) did not claim interface 0 before use so I found two places where supposedly you guys have added code to address

Re: [Nut-upsuser] BlueWalker Powerwalker VI Line-Interactive UPS

2006-09-20 Thread Peter Selinger
Michael Helmling wrote: Excellent, it works with megatec and /dev/ttyS0. Thank you very much! Someone could add that to the hardware database. Please let me know if I can provide you with any information that might help to get the USB interface working, too. To get the USB interface

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex 625L USB version

2006-09-22 Thread Peter Selinger
That device is not currently supported (we have never seen it before). It looks like a HID device, so it should be possible to write a subdriver for it, see docs/hid-subdrivers.txt. However, the data returned by the device looks strange; all the values are 0. I am not sure if this will work

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ablerex 625L USB version

2006-09-24 Thread Peter Selinger
at least one of the values would dropped to a negative value. What should I do next? Thanks. On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:06:37 -0300 (ADT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Selinger) wrote: The patch I just sent may not work; please try this one instead. -- Peter

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Ellipse 750 USBS auto shutdown and NUT.

2006-09-28 Thread Peter Selinger
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_POTTER?= wrote: Thanks jimmy for the hints, but I'm afraid the description of the problem I have was not clear. The problem I have is NOT a software configuration issue of NUT. The problem I have is that the UPS, when reaching battey.charge.low SHUTS DOWN

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Problems with newhidups and Smart-UPS 750

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Strange. Is the problem reproducible? I have never seen it before. You might try the Development version of NUT from SVN (see http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html under Development tree). There has been quite a lot of work on the newhidups driver since 2.0.4. -- Peter Jan Zuchhold

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H650 on USB port

2006-10-19 Thread Peter Selinger
You should first get a current version of NUT. Get release 2.0.4 or later, and preferably the Development version (see http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html - Develoment Tree). The driver to use is newhidups. -- Peter Philipp Leusmann wrote: Hi, is there a way to use my Belkin F6H650

Re: AW: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H650 on USB port

2006-10-19 Thread Peter Selinger
: Peter Selinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2006 14:52 An: Philipp Leusmann Cc: nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org Betreff: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H650 on USB port You should first get a current version of NUT. Get release 2.0.4 or later

Re: AW: AW: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H650 on USB port

2006-10-20 Thread Peter Selinger
don't know about. I am not very hopeful about being able to guess it. -- Peter -Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht- Von: Peter Selinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2006 19:18 An: Philipp Leusmann Cc: Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org Betreff: Re: AW: [Nut

Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT with APC RS 500 in Debian

2006-10-20 Thread Peter Selinger
Dear Gabriel, we would need some information to be able to help you, for example: * NUT version * operating system type and version * what driver were you using * what did you do * what error messages did you get? -- Peter Gabriel =?iso-8859-1?q?Fern=E1ndez?= wrote: I have not been able to

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

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Carlos, as far as I know, there is a standard serial over USB interface. I think the USB specification discourages such interfaces. 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

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

2006-11-02 Thread Peter Selinger
Philipp -Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht- Von: nut-upsuser-bounces+philipp.leusmann=3Drwth- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nut-upsuser- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Peter Selinger Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 03:54 An: Carlos Rodrigues Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nut- [EMAIL

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Segmentation fault

2006-11-11 Thread Peter Selinger
Yes, this has been fixed some time ago in the SVN version. -- Peter Magnus Johansson wrote: Hi! I'm running NUT 2.0.4 and occasionally I get a segfault when starting newhidups and if I don't get a segfault when starting newhidups the process starts eating away at my memory. I sat down

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Selinger
I can only guess. Perhaps you are starting the components in the wrong order? You have to start: First the driver (upsdrvctl). Second upsd. Third upsmon. -- Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_C=F4rte-Real?= wrote: On 11/12/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try an analogous setting

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Selinger
To answer that question, we would have to see the script. This is not the Ubuntu/Debian mailing list, so what's standard to them may not be standard to us. -- Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_C=F4rte-Real?= wrote: On 11/13/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can only guess. Perhaps you

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Selinger
for communication. In other words, it is intended to be started as: upsd and not upsd If upsd is started in the latter way, then upsmon could be started too soon. -- Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_C=F4rte-Real?= wrote: On 11/13/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To answer that question

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite OMNI900LCD

2006-11-15 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Bryan, thanks for your report. I am not sure what issue you are referring to. All the output you posted appears to be normal. Did the driver give you any particular problems? -- Peter Bryan Bond wrote: I am having an issue running NUT and using an TrippLite OMNI900LCD. When I run

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-15 Thread Peter Selinger
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pedro_C=F4rte-Real?= wrote: /etc/nut/upsd.conf is world readable /etc/nut/upsd.users is world readable That is probably a really bad idea, since /usr/etc/upsd.users contains passwords that would allow any user to shut down your machine. -- Peter

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Arjen de Korte wrote: I guess the problem is that Synchronizing... step. Indeed. Either the driver needs more time to dump all the data than is allowed for in upsd or it could also be that the first connection to the driver always fails. Since we first declare a driver stale before

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS,

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Eric Masson wrote: Arjen de Korte a =E9crit : Hello Arjen, This is a different problem, your driver is not answering at all and it looks like the dumpall command is not processed. Upgrading to the lates= t development version would be a good idea now, since a few things have

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups upsd

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
Your problem may be related to the way upsd and upsdrvctl interact. There are several ways to start the driver: (1) newhidups [options] auto (2) newhidups [options] -a myprofile (3) upsdrvctl start myprofile where myprofile is the name of a profile defined in ups.conf. Except for testing

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS,

2006-11-16 Thread Peter Selinger
upsd installed from an older version). -- Peter Eric Masson wrote: Peter Selinger a =E9crit : Hello Peter, Your problem may be related to the way upsd and upsdrvctl interact. There are several ways to start the driver: =20 (1) newhidups [options] auto (2) newhidups [options

Re: [Nut-upsuser] using nut to monitor SNMP UPS unit

2006-11-28 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Tim, if you are using NUT 2.0.4, then you should look at the instructions in the file INSTALL. Step 2 is the following: 2. Build the programs. make Optionaly, you can also build the USB drivers (requires libusb) using: make usb The same goes for the SNMP driver

Re: [Nut-upsuser] hidups unhandled events on Linux/amd64

2006-11-30 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Marek, you should use newhidups, not hidups. -- Peter Marek Szuba wrote: Hello, I have encountered problems trying to set up nut to work with APC BackUps Pro CS connected over USB to an AMD64 machine running Debian. While apcupsd works fine with that device, whenever I start upsd I

Re: [Nut-upsuser] cyberpower 685avr problems with FC5

2006-12-01 Thread Peter Selinger
CyberPower support was added to newhidups after release 2.0.3 (a very old release). You should use NUT 2.0.4, or even better: the newest development snapshot from SVN (http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html) -- Peter henri wrote: i can't seem to get newhidups to detect my UPS.. i'm

Re: [Nut-upsuser] F6C1500-TW-RK

2006-12-08 Thread Peter Selinger
HID v1.11 Device [Belkin Belkin UPS] on usb1:2.0 - jamie On Dec 8, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Peter Selinger wrote: Jamie Fiedler wrote: is there a way to override the productid (like -x productid=3D1234) when using newhidups? Hi Jamie, I like simple yes/no questions! The answer is yes

Re: [Nut-upsuser] howto setup BNT-1500AP on gentoo

2006-12-13 Thread Peter Selinger
Did you set correct permissions on /dev/tts/0? If that device is owned by root, then your driver cannot write to or read from it. -- Peter Vitaly Oborsky wrote: Good afternoon. I try to put nut on gentoo. Has executed installation by a standard command emerge nut. All has passed successfully.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] right problem with ups belkin (model who work with

2006-12-26 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Marc, the answer to your question is contained in the file INSTALL, distributed with NUT, section 6 Set ownership data and permissions on your serial or USB ports that go to your UPS hardware. Quote: The setup for USB ports is slightly more complicated. Device files for USB devices,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Help with nut 2.0.4, MGE Ellipse 1000 and FreeBSD

2006-12-28 Thread Peter Selinger
Miwa Forever wrote: 2006/12/28, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Miwa Forever wrote: Hello. So as my english is not so good, i'll try to write my story in bash commands :o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -mrs FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] su [EMAIL

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Help with nut 2.0.4, MGE Ellipse 1000 and FreeBSD

2006-12-29 Thread Peter Selinger
Arjen de Korte wrote: Miwa Forever wrote: As for changing MAXAGE directive - with values 60 and greater ups become available from pc, at least i can see it's state with upsc. But in /var/log/messages we can see next: Dec 29 17:13:37 zork3 upsd[14370]: UPS [MGE-Ellipse] data is no

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Re: Newpoint 200897 UPS

2006-12-30 Thread Peter Selinger
Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:15:45 -0400, Peter Selinger wrote: Hi Daniel, we have seen device 0d9f/0001 before (possibly under a different name, but this is common), and as far as I remember we could not get it to work. See the thread named Gentoo Ultra USB UPS

Re: [Nut-upsuser] hidups can't find device

2007-01-05 Thread Peter Selinger
Please upgrade to NUT 2.0.5-pre2. APC support was much improved since 2.0.4. Also, try these instructions: http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/ups/backups.html If it still doesn't work, please write to the list again with more specific information. -- Peter Ernest Aigner wrote: Hello,

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Tripp Lite OMNI1000LCD UPS (USB)

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Selinger
Paul Cooley wrote: Hello NUT-UPSUSERS, I would just like to try and help other and indicate that I was able to use the development trunk and get the Tripp Lite OMNI1000LCD UPS (USB) working with the newhidups drivers on Gentoo Linux. The one that is currently available at many local

Re: [Nut-upsuser] APC Question...

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Selinger
Hi Richard, This is bizarre. Using -DD, you should get more output between debug level is '2' and No appropriate HID device found. You should at least get something like: debug level is '2' Checking device (/) (005/001) - VendorID: - ProductID: - Manufacturer: Linux

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Client-only Make option?...

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Selinger
This question has a clear answer: no. There is no such Make/Config option. However, why not just do the following? ./configure [options] cd clients make upsmon upsc You can't use make install with this method. But if you have to, you could install these two binaries by hand: cp upsmon

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