Steven Friedrich <[email protected]> writes: > On Saturday 09 January 2010 06:11:45 pm Frank wrote: >> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Steven Friedrich wrote: >> >> USB. >> >> >> >> I'm betting USB and I'm >> >> >> >>> thinking that maybe the driver you used to use hasn't been converted to >> >>> the new USB system in 8-Stable. >> >> >> >> If that's the case it makes sense. I guess I'll just have to wait until >> >> it's converted. >> > >> > Is it possible to boot one of your machines to an older release of >> > FreeBSD, so you can discover what device driver you had been using, if >> > any. Or any old logs may have the info. I haven't had an APC UPS, so >> > I'm unfamiliar with apcupsd. >> >> Hope this is what you mean. >> >> On 7.2-STABLE the UPS attached to ugen0. It is the same now. >> >> P.S. Per the pkg-message directions I have commented out uhid in the >> kernel config file, compiled and installed. Is this still necessary? >> >> -- >> Frank >> > I think someone is going to have to update apcupsd with changes necessary to > be compatible with FreeBSD 8's new USB arch. > > I haven't seen any documentation, white paper, etc., that discusses what > changes would be needed. You could try sending an email to the port's > maintainer...
Another data point... I didn't pay much attention to it, but without changing my apcupsd configuration, it "just worked" after upgrading from RELENG_7 to RELENG_8, just a couple of days ago. I'm still running on a GENERIC kernel, but if I trim it down I'll keep an eye out for problems. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
