[Nut-upsdev] Re: newhidups and APC Back-UPS CS 350

[arnaud.quette at mgeups.com]

> I'm currently try to get newhidups running with
> the newhidups driver from nut 2.0.2.
>
> After some USB issues (usb_claim_interface() works only as root so far)
> newhidups is recognizing the device. Though it doesn't detect any state
> changes, meaning when I run the battery test mode it's not recognized.

as Charles said, the privileges problem need the hotplug scripts:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2005-August/000110.html

> I wanted to try the CVS version but it seems anonymous CVS is broken.
> The error messages looks like this:
> https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=301952&group_id=1&atid=200001

yep, the problem is still logged, but no update:
https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=302019&group_id=1&atid=200001

> Are nightly snapshots available somewhere?
> I wanted to try with CVS HEAD before I start tinkering around the code...

sadly, no.
Charles: can you make a tarball and put it somewhere for people to test?

Arnaud