Please use Reply-All. On Jul 13, 2015, at 11:00 PM, john hart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay. I went through the pages from Roger Price and have set up enough, I > think that I > should at least get an 'OL' response when I run 'upsdrvctl start' . Instead > I get this: > [CODE] > root@debian:/home/john# upsdrvctl start > Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.2 > Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.38 (2.7.2) > USB communication driver 0.32 > No matching HID UPS found > Driver failed to start (exit status=1) > [CODE] > > Is this because there is no specific driver for my UPS ? I am totally > perplexed. No, it says that the HID driver did not match your UPS. The list archives mention that the blazer_usb (and now nutdrv-qx) drivers work with some models that use WinPower, but this is not guaranteed (WinPower may have been extended since then). What does "lsusb" show? > John > > "Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized piffle" > -attributed to Bertrand Russel > > From: Charles Lepple <[email protected]> > To: john hart <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 7:24 PM > Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Totally beyond me > > On Jul 13, 2015, at 7:59 PM, john hart <[email protected]> wrote: > > > When I ran upsdrvctl start I got a message about the usbhid-ups driver. > > It appears that NUT > > is not configured with the driver. > > What is the exact message? > > The "nut" package in Debian depends on both "nut-client" and "nut-server", > and the USB drivers are in nut-server. (There are other packages for the less > common drivers.) > > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/i386/nut-server/filelist > > > The instructions in the man page is all greek to me. > > As you may be aware, most man pages are reference material. However, in the > "See Also" section at the end of most (if not all) of the NUT man pages, it > mentions the NUT website. The documentation for installing the packages is > online, as well as in the "nut-doc" package: > http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/ar01s05.html#Installing_packages > > > There is also this document by Roger Price: <http://rogerprice.org/NUT.html>. > While it is written with openSUSE in mind, the Debian version would not be > that different. Configuration files are stored in /etc/nut rather than > /etc/ups, and you determine the Debian paths of other files by searching the > package database for the last part of the path, e.g.: > > $ dpkg --search usbhid-ups > nut-server: /lib/nut/usbhid-ups > nut-server: /usr/share/man/man8/usbhid-ups.8.gz > > > > > > As I said before, I am not a programmer. I suspect that NUT might need to > > be compiled with that driver, but I really don't know. Any instructions > > would have to be written so that ANYBODY could follow them, not just > > programmers. > > > Writing good software documentation involves having non-programmers work with > programmers to identify the parts that non-programmers shouldn't need to > know. It would be great if you could let us know where we should put extra > pointers to the documentation that we have. > > -- > Charles Lepple > clepple@gmail > > > > > -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail
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