On 07/09/2012, at 5:01, Martyn Hill <martyn.joseph.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, VirtualBox refused to allow me to attach the UPS USB port to > the guest OS (saying 'busy with a previous request'), so that came to nothing > - and after several night's effort::-(
Windows may be connecting to the UPS using a service automatically. I am not sure how you would stop it but at a guess I would trying looking for a likely service and stop it. > So, do you (or anyone else here) have any guidance on how to force NUT to > link against libusb-0.1 at compile time ??? I think you'd have to mangle the configure script. What does pkg-config --cflags libusb say on your system? > I'm still not convinced that the FreeBSD implementation of libusb v2 is fully > compatible with v0.1 - the available documentation is confusing... I believe it is compatible although 0.1 was evolved rather than designed :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser