On Monday 01 June 2009, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: >Charles Lepple wrote: >> On May 31, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Sunday 31 May 2009, Charles Lepple wrote: >>>> On May 31, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>> I have the newest nut (nut-2.2.2-4.fc10.i386) from fedora 10 repos) >>>>> installed >>>>> and this ups (from lsusb -vv): >>>>> >>>>> Bus 001 Device 006: ID 050d:0751 Belkin Components >>>> >>>> Hi Gene, >>>> >>>> This device should be supported by the usbhid-ups driver. >>> >>> That seems not to be part of the 2.6.30-rcX kernels. >>> The current .config has: >>> >>> CONFIG_USB_HID=y >>> CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y >>> CONFIG_HID_BELKIN=y >> >> I should have been more specific - usbhid-ups is a user-mode driver in >> NUT. It uses libusb to kick the kernel's USB HID driver off of the >> device, and it uses /dev/bus/usb (I forget the kernel driver name) to >> speak the HID protocol. >> >>> I can probably dig out anything else that might be helpful. >>> >>>> Usually you >>>> would look this up in the data/drivers.list file, but it doesn't look >>>> like the lsusb output is terribly helpful for that (Belkin seems to >>>> change the underlying hardware while keeping the model name the same). >>>> Which model do you have? >>>> >>>> The NUT "README" file, while not specific to Fedora, should have the >>>> rest of the info needed to set this up. (Perhaps someone with Fedora >>>> 10 experience can suggest whether the "classic" driver or the HAL >>>> driver would be better.) If I had to guess, I'd say the README is in / >>>> usr/share/doc/nut. >>>> >>>> - Charles >>> >>> It might help, if it was there: >>> [r...@coyote ~]# locate 'nut/README' >>> [r...@coyote ~]# >>> [r...@coyote ~]# cd `locate 'nut/'` >>> [r...@coyote cur]# ls >>> 1243795177.4479.gANVC:2,RS 1243799859.4479.0TdwL 1243813905.4479.2izhm > >the docs are in /usr/share/doc/nut-2.2.2/ . Generally speaking, in >fedora docs are usually placed in /usr/share/doc/<packagename>-<version> >and the config files are in /etc/ups not in /etc/nut > >>> [r...@coyote cur]# pwd >>> /root/Mail/nut/cur >>> [r...@coyote cur]# >>> >>> I don't believe it exists in the rpms. Next? > >use rpm -ql for a comprehensive list of the content of the rpm. BTW, I >am using FC10 myself (but with a different UPS): >[wo...@wolfy ~]$ rpm -ql nut|grep README >/usr/share/doc/nut-2.2.2/README >/usr/share/doc/nut-2.2.2/docs/README > Thanks, they are indeed there. That should get me going once I've injected sufficient caffeine. Which is still on the missing list...
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