[Nut-upsdev] Re: APC regexp match example in newhidups.8

[Charles Lepple]

On 12/23/05, Alfred Ganz <alfred-ganz+nut at agci.com> wrote:
> It looks like the vendor name story is even a bit more messy. On my
> Linux system (2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) the Back-UPS ES 650 shows like this
> with "lsusb":
>     Bus 002 Device 004: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Back-UPS Pro 500/1000/1500
> but like this in /proc/bus/usb/devices:
>     P:  Vendor=051d ProdID=0002 Rev= 1.06
>     S:  Manufacturer=APC

Actually, the names in the first line of the lsusb output are derived
from the VID/PID (the lookup table is usb.ids, either somewhere in
/usr/share, or in /var/lib/misc/ on Debian/Ubuntu).

I might use Peter's example of a fictitious company name for 'vendor',
and use APC's hex ID for an APC example.

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- Charles Lepple