On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 06:13:34PM +0800, Brad Hards wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:35, Flavio Stanchina wrote: > > 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 > <snip> > > 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 > There are a couple of HID UPS packages. I use NUT > (http://www.exploits.org/nut), because it supports MGE (which is what I have > - noone seems to sell APC USB UPSen in Oz). I think there is one that only > supports APC. Try searching the archives.
As far as I know, apcupsd supports all USB UPS's, including MGE. ;) -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
