> -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Lepple [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:48 AM > To: McCann, Brian > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] CyberPower UPS Help > > On Feb 16, 2012, at 8:34 AM, McCann, Brian wrote: > > > Thanks Charles. I tried something similar on FreeBSD 6.2, but it > didn't really help. I just disabled uhci altogether. It then gave me > access to the ugen devices, but it still didn't detect it. So I put > that aside and tried FreeBSD 8.1 (most of my servers are one or the > other) since it's USB support is very different. In fact, when the port > compiled it didn't even use libusb. I didn't have to turn off uhci, but > I did have to fiddle with more permissions then that HowTo said. I got > it working, but I changed so much I'm not sure exactly WHAT did it. I'm > going to start again with a fresh system and I'll post back with the > steps and changes I made to make it work. > > > Cool, thanks for checking on that. (My FreeBSD box is temporarily out of > commission until I rewire some things in the basement.) > > While I think you are correct in saying that the NUT port won't pull in > the libusb port on FreeBSD 8.1, I think what happened is that FreeBSD > 8.x includes libusb in the base system. There is still the problem of > making sure the kernel doesn't grab the UPS with the uhid device. > > A long time ago, I experimented with converting the tripplite_usb driver > to use uhid. It seemed much slower and less reliable, but that was > definitely back in the 6.x days. > > -- > Charles Lepple > clepple@gmail > >
So for FreeBSD 8.1, you need permissions on two dev nodes. You do NOT need to disable uhci. For this ups (usbconfig shows this): ugen1.2: <UPS OR700 CPS> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=LOW (1.5Mbps) pwr=ON Here's my /etc/devfs.rules file: [nut_usb=10] add path 'ugen1.2' group wheel user nut mode 0660 add path 'usb/1.2.0' group wheel user nut mode 0660 You need the second line because the first is only a symlink to the second. Once I do a bunch more testing of this UPS, I'll email the dev list and have them add it as a "confirmed working" device. Thanks! --Brian _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
