On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:17 -0400, Charles Lepple wrote: <snip> > > > since it's an USB ups, you should not need to touch /dev/ttyS1 (that is > > > the serial port) > > > > The system appears to map /dev/ttyS1 to the right USB port - I have no > > idea how. My entry in ups.conf is: > > [pw3105] > > driver = bcmxcp_usb > > port = /dev/ttyS1 > > This seems to work. > > I think Lonely Wolf is right - you do not need to modify permissions > on /dev/ttyS1. According to the man page, the bcmxcp_usb driver only > supports one UPS, and apparently the port name just has to be some > placeholder value (the man page suggests "auto"). (Not saying that you > should change anything, just that there is no connection.) > Interesting as when I change port to auto I get the following but if I put it back to /dev/ttyS1 it works again! I admit confusion :-)
Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Can't claim POWERWARE USB interface Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Network UPS Tools - BCMXCP UPS driver 0.10 (2.0.3) Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Unable to find POWERWARE UPS device on USB bus Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Things to try: Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: - Connect UPS device to USB bus Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: - Run this driver as another user (upsdrvctl -u or 'user=...' in ups.conf). Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: See upsdrvctl(8) and ups.conf(5). Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.0.3 Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Fatal error: unusable configuration Jun 7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Driver failed to start (exit status=1) _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
