On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Marius Nünnerich wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm currently trying to install a APC Back-UPS ES 700 on FreeBSD. >> This UPS has a usb connection to the PC and is recognized as: >> >> ugen0: APC Back-UPS ES 700 FW:829.D2 .I USB FWD2 rev 1.10/1.06, addr >> 2 >> >> my ups.conf looks like: >> [back-ups] >> driver = usbhid-ups >> port = auto >> desc = "server" >> >> When I now run /usr/local/libexec/nut/upsdrvctl start the output is: >> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.2 >> Network UPS Tools: 0.29 USB communication driver - core 0.33 (2.2.2) >> >> No matching HID UPS found >> Driver failed to start (exit status=1) >> >> I chmodded /dev/ugen0 to 777 for testing but it doesn't help. >> >> Anyone has an idea what to try next? Maybe there is just some usb id >> missing in the driver so it will recognize this ups? > > Try chmod'ing /dev/usb* 666. > > Unfortunately it seems you can't just grant privs to your NUT user for a > specific device - libusb also needs /dev/usb* to find them :(
Thanks for your answer! Unfortunatly I don't have access to the system for the next couple of days. I did run upsdrvctl as root so the permissions shouldn't really matter, or does upsdrvctl/upshid-usb drop privileges? _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
