On Tuesday 01 January 2002 19:45, steve wrote: > I've got a VT8367 [KT266] chipset which is running SuSE 7.3. > When adding a APC Back-UPS 500 I get: > > Jan 1 12:31:49 ss10 kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, > assigned device number 3 > Jan 1 12:31:49 ss10 kernel: : USB HID v1.00 Device [American Power > Conversion Back-UPS 500 FW: 6.1.D USB FW: c1 ] on usb1:3.0 > > This looks promising. But when I try to locate the correct device I fail > utterly. SuSE has added /dev/ttyUSB0 (through 4) and clearly the system > sees the device. When I try to use the APC s/w and specify /dev/ttyUSB2 > (first device on second bus) it cannot see any connection. (General tty > verification failure.) I've tried a number of other tty's too with no > luck.
I doubt you will be able to use it as a serial port. UPSes are HID devices, as you can see from the log lines you quote, so you *might* be able to do something with it by hacking the tool I wrote to experiment with my new monitor, which is also an HID device. Have a look here: http://spazioweb.inwind.it/fstanchina/linux/hacks/testhiddev.c The USB HID specifications are available at http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage.html -- Ciao, Flavio Stanchina Trento - Italy "The best defense against logic is ignorance." http://spazioweb.inwind.it/fstanchina/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
