On Wednesday 16 May 2007 23:00, Alex Bakhtin wrote: > DO> I have not had much luck with MGE UPSs talking to FreeBSD boxes > using DO> USB. > > Arnaud Quette from MGE helped me to start driver. It's necessary > to specify user, because by default it runs under 'nobody' > privileges. But NUT still doesn't work, he sent me a link > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2007-February/00 >2295.html, which describes some bug in the FreeBSD USB implementation.
Yes, I have sort of communicated with an MGE UPS over USB but it wasn't reliable. > DO> I stick with RS232 and they work fine though. > > Unfortunatelly, I have only one serial port on this box, which > is used as a console now. The only chance to add another serial is > usb-com adapter. If you want reliable comms it's probably the only way to do it for now. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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