Hello all,

I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am
on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have
hooked up to a Linux-based PC router.

The model I have connects to a serial port on the PC. I am using MDK
9.2 on the router with a custom 2.4.22 TMB kernel with serial support
statically compiled into the kernel.

I tried the Belkin Linux software specifying ttyS0 (my MB only has one
RS232 port as it has an onboard VPU) for the serial connection. But
I get the message:
1 2/14/2004 11:45:33 <UPS Disconnect! Cannot get information from
UPS.>
in the PRO_UPS.LOG file.

The GTK/Gnome Monitor GUI window appears to work fine and can connect
to the local upsd process but I get the following problem:

UPS Comm Disconnect

has warning red light beside it in the UPS status window. So the upsd
deamon process cannot connect to the UPS. All the status UPS model details,
graphs and dials are blank due there being no connection to the
UPS...

I have tried the RPM that someone built for the Fedora kernel
(with even less success).

I have tried the NUT RPM for MDK but apparently this doesn't appear to
work either. (I tried making a special ups_serv user and putting the
device and config files under this user). The support hardware section
says that <belkin> driver should support my hardware but needs the
proprietary driver installed first (which I did). Again the upsd
process couldn't connect to the UPS.

Anyone had any joy getting this model (Gold Series) to work with
Linux? The Belkin Linux GUI is very nice if only it could see the UPS
hardware... :-)

-- 
Best regards,
 Robert                          mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]



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