Nut,usb and installation

[david walcroft]

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.
> 
> 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 at reddwarf] 
failed: Server disconnected

Sep 25 21:51:05 reddwarf upsmon[2105]: Poll UPS [david at reddwarf] failed 
- Write error: Bad file descriptor

david