[Nut-upsdev] NUT-2.0.5: newhidups on RedHat ES4 ( cont'd )

[Patrick Agrain]

At 14:10 04/04/2007, Charles Lepple wrote:
>On 4/4/07, Patrick Agrain <patrick.agrain at alcatel-lucent.fr> wrote:
>>Can this be useful ? It is grepped from another system running NUT 2.0.3.
>>If not, please ignore it. I'll also try the tool and/or the "lsusb" command.
>
>If it is the same UPS model, then yes, it tells us that the problem is
>most likely not with that model's UPS firmware.

It is.


>>[root at xa000000 root]# newhidups -u root -a ups_on_usb -DD
>>Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28a (2.0.3)
>>
>>debug level is '2'
>>Checking device (0000/0000) (003/001)
>>Found Manufacturer Index :3
>>Found Product Index :2
>>- VendorID: 0000
>>- ProductID: 0000
>>- Manufacturer: Linux 2.4.17-ll-dhs3 ehci-hcd
>
>The "manufacturer" of the USV virtual root hub includes the kernel
>version, and it looks like this is a much earlier kernel than 2.6.9 as
>seen on ES4. I think that there are probably a number of other
>RedHat-specific kernel changes in their 2.6.9 kernel, but I don't know
>why that would affect the outcome of retrieving that descriptor.

Yes, actually this system runs a customized 2.4-based linux kernel.
I'll check the available patch from RH to see if there is one concerning 
the kernel and some USB issues.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Regards,
Patrick Agrain