On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Thanasis wrote:
on 06/11/2009 02:03 AM Thanasis wrote the following:
SNIP
Thanks Diana. I checked the pinout of the DB25-Male to DB9-Female, and also that of the gender changer and they appear good as far as continuity exists between the pins as shown on the site you mention. :-)I also checked the continuity between the ends of the black serial cable supplied by APC, and for the record, it is like so: APC cable (940-0024D) pinout: DB9 Female (PC side) <---> DB9 Male (UPS side) pin 2 <------------------> pin 2 pin 3 <------------------> pin 1 pin 5 <------------------> pin 9 All other pins are not connected. So, now I believe my problem is not hardware but software related. I'll post any successful results from tests of other software.I downloaded the latest version of apcupsd from http://www.apcupsd.com (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54413) and compiled and installed with gmake. Straightfoward. Communication with the UPS perfect from the first trial. :-)
Glad to hear you got things working. Now you ought to consider creating an updated OpenBSD port for apcupsd. This would be a great contribution back to the project. g.day
