RE: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD Hi Don, Thanks for the reply. But yes, APC is selling in India the models it can't sell anywhere else. My 500 VA Back UPS (purchased new last month) does not have any cuaa/usb interface. It's not just APC alone, there's a whole lot of companies that throw

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-03-01 Thread manish jain
Hi Don, Thanks for the reply. But yes, APC is selling in India the models it can't sell anywhere else. My 500 VA Back UPS (purchased new last month) does not have any cuaa/usb interface. It's not just APC alone, there's a whole lot of companies that throw their junk in here in this

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-03-01 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
Hi Mannish, I guess all you have to do is look at the first four letters in FreeBSD. One of the many reasons why I love this operating system, and it just keeps getting better, even I'm not. Don On Wednesday 01 March 2006 13:15, manish jain wrote: Hi Don, Thanks for the reply. But yes,

RE: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically

RE: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Donald J. O'Neill Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:47 AM To: Chuck Swiger Cc: manish jain; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD Then, thats got

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD Then, thats got to be a really old, old one. I've been working (playing with actually) with computers since the color computer. I won't admit to anything further back than that. I've never seen one that didn't have some means of communication

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-22 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:07:21AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Fortunately, the used market is awash in UPSes that have burned out batteries. Just find the local supplier of lead-acid gell cells and make friends with him and your in like flyn. Any large city has at least 1 of them.

Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread manish jain
Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically shuts down before backup supply runs out ? If someone can attach a

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Ian Lord
At 09:09 2006-02-21, manish jain wrote: Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically shuts down before backup supply runs

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
manish jain wrote: I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically shuts down before backup supply runs out ? No. If your UPS

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Peter
--- Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:09 2006-02-21, manish jain wrote: Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: manish jain wrote: I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically shuts

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Ian Lord
At 10:32 2006-02-21, Peter wrote: --- Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:09 2006-02-21, manish jain wrote: Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. As best I can tell from the OP's description, and the APC website, they all have a UPS

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 09:53, Ian Lord wrote: At 10:32 2006-02-21, Peter wrote: --- Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:09 2006-02-21, manish jain wrote: Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:08, Chuck Swiger wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. As best I can tell from the

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Ian Lord
At 11:47 2006-02-21, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:08, Chuck Swiger wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Graham Bentley
Back-UPS CS 350 is the lowest model I got to work on *nix. However, you have to ring / mail APC and ask them to send you out a serial lead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:46, Ian Lord wrote: Lol in my own opinion, if the user that asked the question can't figure out there is a usb/serial port on the unit (I took the assumption as true :) I can hardly see how he would manage to compile and configure apcupsd :) What can I say.

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:35:40AM -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: I think in this case, he was referring to extra sensory perception. But, since this is evidently a model that just sits there and supplies backup power until the battery is too depleted to AC power to the computer at an

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Mather
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. As best I can tell from the OP's description,