I have just tried to get two APC Smart UPS v/s 650s up and running in my department but unfortunately, genpower does not support the cable, a black PowerShute(TM) cable with serial number 940-0024C. I have genpower running with my APC Back-UPS 400 and cable 940-0020B successfully after figuring out I should use the tripp-nt cable type using gentest. gentest is a program that monitors the serial port and displays which line goes high or low when the ups is unplugged. This is a great program to figure out if the response of your cable fits one of the cable configurations compiled into genpower. However, when I ran gentest in every way possible using the black cable, there was no signal at all. I then tried statserial and again, there was no signal (note I put my cable on the new ups to make sure it was working and it worked fine). This leaves me with a couple of questions:
1) Does anyone know how I can figure out a new cable specification for the 940-0024C when gentest and statserial are no help? 2) I have found another non-debian package called apcupsd which does support this cable and most other APC cables. It also supports smart mode which is not supported in genpower. Moreover, it is GPLd. I would be happy to package this for debian if there is no objections/some demand. Any comments? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at <URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .