Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-28 Thread Derek Ragona
I still have one server running 5.X release. 5.X also should automatically generate the devs. Do you have support for usb in your kernel? If you do have usb compiled in your kernel, check your dmesg that the usb devices are properly being identified. -Derek At 07:27 PM 3/27/2007,

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/03/07 Derek Ragona said: I still have one server running 5.X release. 5.X also should automatically generate the devs. Do you have support for usb in your kernel? If you do have usb compiled in your kernel, check your dmesg that the usb devices are properly being identified. It's

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 26/03/07 Derek Ragona said: I use nut-ups on a number of systems both attached to a UPS and some as network slaves. In all my systems I use UPS's that have serial interfaces and USB, but connect them via serial. If you read the docs on nut-ups you will see some drivers do support the

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-27 Thread Derek Ragona
Which FreeBSD version are you running? In 6.X the devs are created automatically on bootup. In earlier versions you may need to make it. Look at the Makefile in /dev for the correct make option. -Derek At 05:39 PM 3/27/2007, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 26/03/07 Derek Ragona

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 27/03/07 Derek Ragona said: Which FreeBSD version are you running? In 6.X the devs are created automatically on bootup. In earlier versions you may need to make it. Look at the Makefile in /dev for the correct make option. I'm running 5-STABLE. I don't see a Makefile in /dev. Mike

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-26 Thread Derek Ragona
I use nut-ups on a number of systems both attached to a UPS and some as network slaves. In all my systems I use UPS's that have serial interfaces and USB, but connect them via serial. If you read the docs on nut-ups you will see some drivers do support the USB's. You will need to specify

using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey, I'm new to using nut-ups, or any UPS monitoring software. Mainly I want some kind of reporting on power failures, and for a clean shutdown in the event of a prolonged outage. The UPS is an APC Back-UPS ES 500, with a USB interface. With usbd running, usbdevs shows it connected. [EMAIL

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 25, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey, I'm new to using nut-ups, or any UPS monitoring software. Mainly I want some kind of reporting on power failures, and for a clean shutdown in the event of a prolonged outage. The UPS is an APC Back-UPS ES 500, with a USB interface.