APC UPS

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 17 August 2007, jdow wrote:
>From: <tony.chamberlain at lemko.com>
>
>> -Anyone use an APC Uinterruptible Power Source BK 350 with Linux?
>> There is an RJ45-USB cable, but they say the USB cable will not work
>> with Linux, and I need an RJ45 to Serial cable. Thw software that goes
>> with
>> it (PowerChute for Linux) asks which serial port you want to use it with
>> so it
>> must need a serial port.
>>
>> I am using CentOS and there is pl2303 and usbserial, but that doesn't seem
>> to recognize
>> the USB port I plugged the machine into. However, hwbrowser shows
>>
>> American Power Conversion Back-UPS Pro 500/1000/1500
>>
>> under system devices, when the USB port is connected.
>>
>> Any idea how to access it through a serial port? I can't find /dev/ttyUSB*
>
>At the very least most cheap USB to serial will not work. They do not
>implement the CTS/DTR sets of control lines, which is used for many of
>the UPS's simple signaling. A dongle that explicitly implements those
>signal lines should work. (I've had trouble with amateur radio remote
>control with these half assed cheap adapters.)
>
>{^_^}   Joanne

Try one of the FDTI adaptors.  We on the heyu list found they were much more 
dependable.


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