[Nut-upsdev] Re: Serial Ports (Was Re: Common Power Management : NUT and HAL (stage 1))

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:40, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:26:38PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > Good point. It might not even be a UPS; it might be a modem or something
> > else that one of the probers touch. Something I forgot, need to be very
> > careful here. It's fixable though.
>
> Is there any reason we don't just do serial PnP? Do UPSes not generally
> support this?

I think some UPS's support it, but certainly not the ones that do 'dumb' dry 
contact signalling (ie most of the cheap ones).

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