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.
>
> 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
Not sure what to suggest next. Is the UPS cable plugged in? Is the USB
module (in my case, uhci-hcd) loaded?
david
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