[Nut-upsdev] newhidups with APC Smart-UPS 1500

[Peter Selinger]

Hi Felix,

this problem has been fixed in the development tree (the trunk in
SVN). Instructions for grabbing it via SVN are here:

http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html

-- Peter


=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Felix_M=FChlbauer?= wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using the stable amd64 port of Debian Linux. I installed (the 
> latest) nut-2.0.1-4 and nut-usb packages for utilizing an APC Smart-UPS 
> 1500 USB. I tried "apcupsd" first but "nut" makes an even more 
> sophisticated impression on me and has more security options.
> 
> I had problems with the newhidups driver. It didn't find a device with 
> matching VendorID. And hidups crashed.
> So I compiled newhidups from latest stable source.
> 
> now I get the following debug messages:
> 
> /var/lib/nut/newhidups -DDD auto
> Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.4)
> 
> debug level is '3'
> 
> ...
> Checking device (051D/0002) (001/004)
> - VendorID: 051d
> - ProductID: 0002
> - Manufacturer: American Power Conversion
> - Product: Smart-UPS 1500 RM FW:617.3.I USB FW:1.5
> - Serial Number: AS0341111860
> - Bus: 001
> Trying to match device
> Device matches
> HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 61939)
> Size read for the report descriptor: 4294967274
> Unable to get Report descriptor (-22)
> ...
> 
> ------------------
> 
> The report descriptor size is obviously wrong. Maybe there is a problem 
> with the 64bit port?? For getting information the same function 
> usb_control_msg is used so the error should be somewhere deeper.
> Also I didn't find out what error code -22 means..
> 
> Has anyone some advices?
> 
> regards,
>   Felix