[Nut-upsdev] newhidups / Solaris 10 / APC RM1500

[Arnaud Quette]

Hello Marty,

2006/3/6, Marty Lee <marty at upstart-solutions.co.uk>:
>
> Hi there,
>
> been using NUT for ages and recently upgraded to a new server; while
> I'm waiting
> for a USB->Serial adapter for Solaris to arrive, I thought I'd play
> with the
> newhidups, as the APC UPS I have has a USB port and the new server
> doesn't have
> a serial port....
>
> I've got Solaris 10 & newhidups working with the ugen driver up to a
> point,
> and that is a read overrun while probing the UPS itself. It seems
> this has been
> spotted before and there was a post back in February about problems
> reading UPS
> information from an APC UPS.
>
> Is there any progress on this issue ?
>
> I had to make some simple updates to get newhidups to compile on
> Solaris; is
> anyone interested in getting these rolled into NUT and for a text
> document on
> how to configure nut/newhidups/Solaris 10 ?

I didn't had much time to continue on this point, so yes, any
(verbose) feedback is welcome...

Arnaud
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