Hi Jamie, On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:13:15 +0400, Jamie Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all, thanks for your work on nut. I recently got myself a new cheap UPS, > and have thus far determined very little about it. I can run whatever you > like to help identify and work with it. So far I've played around with > various settings and have had some limited success with the megatec_usb driver > (Debian testing version): > [snip] >> Asking for UPS information [I]... >> get_data_krauler: index [0c], prefix [#] >> - Unable to fetch string 12 >> get_data_krauler: connection failure >> I => FAILED [timeout] >> Megatec protocol UPS detected. >> Asking for UPS power ratings [F]... >> get_data_krauler: index [0d], prefix [#] >> - Unable to fetch string 13 >> get_data_krauler: connection failure >> F => FAILED [timeout] >> Cannot calculate charge percentage for this UPS. >> -> String: UPS No Ack (len = 10/512) >> set_data_krauler: dump [UPS No Ack] >> Done setting up the UPS. >> Asking for UPS status [Q1]... >> get_data_krauler: index [03], prefix [(] >> - Unable to fetch string 3 >> get_data_krauler: connection failure >> Q1 => FAILED [timeout] [snip] megatec_usb is definitely the right driver for your UPS. I don't know if anything could be done to stop failures. Can you plug the UPS to another computer and run megatec_usb again? Also please try version 2.2.2-pre3 released today: http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html > > Looking at similar mails in the archives I guess you need some of those > values for the battery table in the driver, but I'm not clear which. > As Carlos wrote recently there is no way to calculate charge percentage if I and F commands fail. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2008-April/003970.html -- Alexander _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser

