[Nut-upsdev] REGRESSION: New "megatec" driver does't work for UPS that was managed by old fentonups driver

[Carlos Rodrigues]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Michel Bouissou
<michel-nut at bouissou.net> wrote:
> debug level is '3'
> Starting UPS detection process...
> Asking for UPS status [Q1]...
> Q1 => FAILED [timeout]
> Asking for UPS status [Q1]...
> Q1 => FAILED [timeout]
> Asking for UPS status [Q1]...
> Q1 => FAILED [timeout]
> Asking for UPS status [Q1]...
> Q1 => FAILED [timeout]
> Asking for UPS status [Q1]...
> Q1 => FAILED [timeout]
> 5 out of 5 detection attempts failed (minimum failures: 2).
> Megatec protocol UPS not detected.

The UPS doesn't seem to be sending anything back...


> ...Where the "old" fentonups drivers gives :
>
> # /lib/nut/fentonups -DDD -a Alpha
> Network UPS Tools - Fenton UPS driver 1.22 (2.0.5)
> This driver is obsolete and has been replaced by the "megatec" driver. It will
> be removed somewhere in the near future.
> debug level is '3'
> Detected Alpha 500 iC on /dev/ttyS0
> dstate_init: sock /var/run/nut/Alpha open on fd 5

Can you try the recently released NUT 2.2.2? There have been some
changes to megatec related to serial communications reliability that
may help.

-- 
Carlos Rodrigues