[Nut-upsuser] TrippLite/Compiling on FreeBSD

[Charles Lepple]

On 9/26/05, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to see if there's any chance that NUT will support a few new
> TrippLite UPSes that we just bought:
>
> Sep  9 01:42:25 miko /kernel: uhid0: TRIPP LITE TRIPP LITE OMNIVS1500XL,
> rev 1.1

That unit will most likey not be supported by newhidups, but there is
a separate tripplite_usb driver that should recognize it.

The trick may be getting libusb in *BSD to recognize it:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/2005-September/000138.html

> I grabbed the devel sources via cvs, but am having trouble building it
> when I enable the "newhidups" driver:

Try just running 'gmake tripplite_usb' in the drivers directory, and
if that works, './tripplite_usb -DDDDD auto'

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- Charles Lepple