Looks like a permissions problem. USB drivers require some special setting-up. They key is to start by running the driver with "-u root".
I wrote some instructions for APC/newhidups at http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/ups/backups.html; they might help. -- Peter Gregory Gulik wrote: > > > I have a Tripp Lite SMART1500 RMXL2U UPS and I'd love to be able to > access it via USB. I found that the latest NUT sources in CVS has a > driver that looks like it might work. > > Any chance that driver would work the my UPS? > > I tried running it and it's not working: > > failed to detach kernel driver from USB device... > trying again to claim USB device... > failed to claim USB device, trying 1 more time(s)... > detaching kernel driver from USB device... > failed to detach kernel driver from USB device... > trying again to claim USB device... > failed to claim USB device, trying 0 more time(s)... > detaching kernel driver from USB device... > failed to detach kernel driver from USB device... > trying again to claim USB device... > Unable to get HID descriptor (error sending control message: Operation > not permitted) > Checking device (0000/0000) (001/001) > - VendorID: 0000 > - ProductID: 0000 > - Manufacturer: unknown > - Product: unknown > - Serial Number: unknown > - Bus: 001 > Trying to match device > Device does not match - skipping > No appropriate HID device found > No matching USB/HID UPS found > > > The device identifies itself as: > > usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 > hiddev96: USB HID v1.00 Device [TRIPP LITE TRIPP LITE SMART1500RMXL2Ua ] > on usb-0000:00:1f.2-1 > > -- > Greg Gulik http://www.gulik.org/greg/ > greg @ gulik.org > > > > --------------000707080201030700030402 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> > <title></title> > </head> > <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> > <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br> > I have a Tripp Lite SMART1500 RMXL2U UPS and I'd love to be able to > access it via USB. I found that the latest NUT sources in CVS has a > driver that looks like it might work.<br> > <br> > Any chance that driver would work the my UPS?<br> > <br> > I tried running it and it's not working:<br> > <br> > failed to detach kernel driver from USB device...<br> > trying again to claim USB device...<br> > failed to claim USB device, trying 1 more time(s)...<br> > detaching kernel driver from USB device...<br> > failed to detach kernel driver from USB device...<br> > trying again to claim USB device...<br> > failed to claim USB device, trying 0 more time(s)...<br> > detaching kernel driver from USB device...<br> > failed to detach kernel driver from USB device...<br> > trying again to claim USB device...<br> > Unable to get HID descriptor (error sending control message: Operation > not permitted)<br> > Checking device (0000/0000) (001/001)<br> > - VendorID: 0000<br> > - ProductID: 0000<br> > - Manufacturer: unknown<br> > - Product: unknown<br> > - Serial Number: unknown<br> > - Bus: 001<br> > Trying to match device<br> > Device does not match - skipping<br> > No appropriate HID device found<br> > No matching USB/HID UPS found<br> > <br> > <br> > The device identifies itself as:<br> > <br> > usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4<br> > hiddev96: USB HID v1.00 Device [TRIPP LITE TRIPP LITE SMART1500RMXL2Ua > ] on usb-0000:00:1f.2-1<br> > <br> > </font> > <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- > Greg Gulik <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" > href="http://www.gulik.org/greg/";>http://www.gulik.org/greg/</a> > greg @ gulik.org > > </pre> > </body> > </html> > > --------------000707080201030700030402-- > > > --===============1215220289== > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > _______________________________________________ > Nut-upsuser mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser > > --===============1215220289==-- > _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
