On 05/03/2011, at 20:16, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> We search for a VendorID / ProductID combination. The one you posted earlier
> 
>  idVendor = 0x0463
>  idProduct = 0xffff
> 
> is one of the combinations that are supported by the usbhid-ups driver (it is 
> used for all MGE / Eaton devices with USB HID PDC support). If the driver can 
> find this ID in the list of attached devices, it should find it. But I guess 
> this is something related to the FreeBSD USB stack, which I know nothing of.

The root of the problem was the permissions on the ugen device node - when NUT 
dropped privs it couldn't open it.

I should clean up my script to translate udev rules into devd ones and send a 
patch for the NUT port to install it so the perms get changed automagically..

> 
> Best regards, Arjen
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