As far as I understand I need either the hidups or the newhidups driver of nut in order to use the APC Back-UPS XS 1500 (aka BX1500) with a USB interface cable. Unfortunately the 3.9 nut-2.0.0p1 package doesn't come with either of the two drivers. Neither does the current nut-2.0.3 port. I even tried to compile the nut-2.0.3 port with --with-drivers=newhidups configuration arg added to the Makefile. After a few guess-fixes [1] I finally got sucked with my extremely limited hacking knowledge [2].
A change log over at www.networkupstools.org was teasing me with all the improvements on newhidups and the removal of the experimental status flag. Are the hidups and newhidups only available under Linux? What are my alternatives? Both apc-upsd and upsd look quite old and they don't look like they support USB either. http://www.apcupsd.org/ looks promising. Has that been compiled and used successfully on OpenBSD, maybe even with USB? Thanks for your time, Claus BTW, sorry for the blank mail earlier. [1] changed includes b usb.hb to <dev/usb/usb.h> in files w-nut-2.0.3/nut-2.0.3/drivers/libhid.h and w-nut-2.0.3/nut-2.0.3/drivers/libusb.h [2] It looks like the references to HIDDevice isnbt liked even though its defined as a struct. ===> Building for nut-2.0.3 common/ drivers/ cc -I../include -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wsign-compare -s -c newhidups.c In file included from newhidups.c:25: libhid.h:160: error: syntax error before '*' token libhid.h:170: error: syntax error before '*' token libhid.h:175: error: syntax error before '*' token libhid.h:180: error: syntax error before '*' token libhid.h:185: error: syntax error before '*' token libhid.h:190: error: syntax error before '*' token libhid.h:196: error: syntax error before '*' token In file included from newhidups.h:32, from newhidups.c:26: libusb.h:41: error: syntax error before '*' token libusb.h:42: error: syntax error before '*' token libusb.h:45: error: syntax error before '*' token libusb.h:46: error: syntax error before '*' token libusb.h:47: error: syntax error before '*' token libusb.h:48: error: syntax error before '*' token In file included from newhidups.c:26: newhidups.h:36: error: syntax error before '*' token newhidups.h:36: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `udev' newhidups.h:36: warning: data definition has no type or storage class newhidups.c:54: error: syntax error before '*' token newhidups.c:54: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `udev' newhidups.c:54: warning: data definition has no type or storage class *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/nut/w-nut-2.0.3/nut-2.0.3/drivers (line 102 of Makefile). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/nut/w-nut-2.0.3/nut-2.0.3 (line 27 of Makefile). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/nut (line 1924 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk). -- Bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten sparen: GMX SmartSurfer! Kostenlos downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer
