On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, david walcroft wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
All the drivers listed as examples in /etc/sysconfig/ups are for devices connected by serial cable.
If your UPS is connected via USB, use MODEL=hidups. (If that doesn't work, try MODEL=newhidups. The only other USB-enabled driver is energizerups, but that's brand specific.) The DEVICE will be something like /dev/hiddevX (where X is a digit. The device will be created at startup, so you should not need an entry is /etc/udev/rules.d.
I use MODEL=upsdrvctl and then set the ups specific stuff in /etc/ups/ups.conf I have it working on several systems using serial port ups's just fine. One of these systems has 4 ups's attached to it. The problem is that they are attached to the machine via serial ports. I am still fighting the one that is attached via usb.
On boot, I see:
Sep 10 12:43:20 yankee kernel: hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Device [APC Back-UPS ES 650 FW:818.w1.D USB FW:w1] on usb-0000:00:04.2-2
The device created is:
# ls -l /dev/hiddev0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 180, 96 Sep 17 12:52 /dev/hiddev0
My /etc/sysconfig/ups has
MODEL=hidups DEVICE=/dev/hiddev0
Changed my "MODEL=[new]hidups" and booted both with no result,no /dev/hiddev* is generated and syslog has errors:
Sep 25 21:50:55 reddwarf upsmon[2105]: Set username on [david@reddwarf] failed: Server disconnected
Sep 25 21:51:05 reddwarf upsmon[2105]: Poll UPS [david@reddwarf] failed
- Write error: Bad file descriptor
See if you can talk directly to the ups. Try "/sbin/newhidups -u root -D -a PS1" where PS1 is the name of the ups you configured in /etc/ups.conf. It should return a bunch of stuff about your ups. It took me awhile to get that to work but I think that is the first step. If the driver cannot talk to the ups then nut will never work :-)
The above works for me, however I still cannot get nut to start. I get the following in the logs: Sep 25 12:17:45 porky upsdrvctl: Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.23 (2.0.2) Sep 25 12:17:45 porky upsdrvctl: Sep 25 12:17:45 porky upsdrvctl: Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.0.2 Sep 25 12:17:45 porky upsdrvctl: No USB/HID UPS found Sep 25 12:17:45 porky upsdrvctl: Driver failed to start (exit status=1) Sep 25 12:17:45 porky ups: upsdrvctl startup failed Sep 25 12:17:45 porky upsd[23661]: Can't connect to UPS [PS1] (newhidups-hiddev0): No such file or directory Sep 25 12:17:45 porky upsd: Can't connect to UPS [PS1] (newhidups-hiddev0): No such file or directory Sep 25 12:17:45 porky upsd: Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.2
At this point I suspect that there is something missing from the driver but I am not sure. :-(
Regards,
Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com