On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:09:56PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 04:04:47PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:21:44PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > > > > > > FreeBSD's USB support has always been somewhat deficient. For example, > > > apcupsd can't talk to their UPSs over the USB bus, even though the > > > software > > > itself knows how, because FreeBSD doesn't know what a UPS is and throws up > > > its hands when you plug it in. > > > > This is false for at least the APC SmartUPS the machine I'm sending this > > from is connected to. I wouldn't be suprised if it was true once, but > > it isn't today. > > > > ugen0: American Power Conversion Smart-UPS 750 FW:651.12.D USB FW:4.2, rev > > 1.10/0.06, addr 2 > > Does apcupsd connect to it? I tried this back on 5.x and it failed > miserably. It identified the unit, but wouldn't talk to it.
Yes. I get notifications of power failures and can query status. -- Brooks
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