On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Rory Jaffe wrote:

I used the package that Ubuntu 10.10 provides. Here's the package info:

rory@ubuntunas:~$ apt-cache showpkg nut
Package: nut
Versions:
2.4.3-1ubuntu5 (/var/lib/apt/lists/ us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_binary- amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)

Ah, I think I see the problem. We added the USB IDs for the (new) SMART1000LCD to usbhid-ups after NUT 2.4.3 was released.

You should be able to get basic functionality by adding the following two lines to the middle of /lib/udev/rules.d/52-nut-usbups.rules:

#  e.g. TrippLite Smart1000LCD  - usbhid-ups
ATTR{idVendor}=="09ae", ATTR{idProduct}=="2009", MODE="664", GROUP="@RUN_AS_GROUP@"

Note that you will need to replace the @RUN_AS_GROUP@ with the actual group that appears on the other lines in that file. It's probably "nut" or "ups", but I haven't tried 10.10 yet.

The easiest way to get udev to reload this is to unplug the USB cable of the UPS, and plug it back in.

It does appear that the reported battery voltage might be off by a factor of 10. That should already be fixed in NUT 2.6.0 and later. The "low battery" signal is generated internally by the UPS, and should not be affected.

Feel free to post the output of "upsc" once the driver starts.



On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Charles Lepple <[email protected]> wrote:
On Feb 13, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Rory Jaffe wrote:

Trying to get a Tripp-Lite to work with nut--Ubuntu 10.10. I was getting the error message "unable to claim USB device", tried to unbind the drivers to that device, and had the following delightful experience. In short, continue to get the same problem, and the drivers bound themselves back.

The usbhid-ups driver should unbind the kernel HID interface as necessary, but it needs write permission to the /dev/bus/usb/* node which corresponds to the UPS.

Which version of NUT is this? Is it the set of .debs from Ubuntu, and if so, what is the full version printed by dpkg/synaptic/ aptitude?

If it is built from source, what options did you pass to the configure script?


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