On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Arnaud Quette <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2011/6/8 Don Gould <[email protected]> >> >> On 8/06/2011 11:04 p.m., Charles Lepple wrote: >>> >>> On Jun 8, 2011, at 6:29 AM, Don Gould wrote: >>> >>>> it was suggested to me that nut might support my new ups. >>>> >>>> I have a headless debian box that it will be powering. >>>> >>>> Can someone tell me what packages I need to install? >>> >>> The base package for NUT in Debian is just called "nut" (currently at >>> version 2.4.3): >>> >>> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/nut >>> >>> However, I don't think any of the NUT developers currently own a GXT3, >> >> Well I have one and I'm more than willing to provide system access to the >> devs if they want to help figure this out. >> >> I've been though a number of weeks bouncing messages at the manufacture of >> the UPS to end up with a less than satisfactory answer and I'd just love to >> see this puppy with some functional FLOSS driving it.
Don, There's a simple program that Peter Selinger wrote a few years ago to grab some of the information from the UPS's USB interface - I'll dig that up and we can try to figure out what's going on. As a minimum, you'll need the Debian build-essentials package, as well as libusb-dev. >>> and we are waiting to hear back from another user as to whether the >>> latest version of NUT handles that device any better. >> >> Ya, I saw your other message. Debian repo is at ver 2.4.3 and the current >> SVN is some what more advanced.... I'm happy to help with some testing if >> people are happy to help baby the newbi :) > > FYI, I've uploaded 2.6.1-1 in unstable 4 days ago. > this would obviously need a squeeze backport, but already provide a part of > the answer... Arnaud, Whom should we bug about a backport? :-) -- - Charles Lepple _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
