On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Marius Nünnerich wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently trying to install a APC Back-UPS ES 700 on FreeBSD. > This UPS has a usb connection to the PC and is recognized as: > > ugen0: APC Back-UPS ES 700 FW:829.D2 .I USB FWD2 rev 1.10/1.06, addr > 2 > > my ups.conf looks like: > [back-ups] > driver = usbhid-ups > port = auto > desc = "server" > > When I now run /usr/local/libexec/nut/upsdrvctl start the output is: > Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.2 > Network UPS Tools: 0.29 USB communication driver - core 0.33 (2.2.2) > > No matching HID UPS found > Driver failed to start (exit status=1) > > I chmodded /dev/ugen0 to 777 for testing but it doesn't help. > > Anyone has an idea what to try next? Maybe there is just some usb id > missing in the driver so it will recognize this ups?
Try chmod'ing /dev/usb* 666. Unfortunately it seems you can't just grant privs to your NUT user for a specific device - libusb also needs /dev/usb* to find them :( -- 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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