[Nut-upsuser] RE Powerware 5115 and USB

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Georg,

> one question with regard to a Powerware 5115 UPS connected to a Debian 3.1
> Sarge box via USB: I downloaded and compiled nut 2.0.2 but I am unable to
> configure the USB subsystem so that upsdrvctl recognizes the UPS.
>
> My /usr/local/ups/etc/ups.conf contains:
>
> [bla]
>    driver = bcmxcp
>    port   = /dev/usbdev2.2
>    desc   = "bla bla ..."
>
> Yesterday it took me about 10 minutes to configure an APC Smart UPS 1500
> on another Sarge box (using apcupsd), but the combination of nut, USB
> and this Powerware 5115 UPS seems to be really tricky. Is it obligatory
> to use something like /dev/usb/hiddev0 in the port statement in ups.conf?
> (The apcupsd on the other machine is configured with a simple "usb"
> statement and automagically finds the correct UPS. Does something like
> this exist for nut?) What kind of "port" statement is needed in ups.conf?
> I don't know why but I cannot get this machine to use /dev/usb/hiddev*. The
> relevant components are compiled into the kernel and it _should_ work, but
> doesn't. Any help would be really appreciated!

you need nut 2.0.3 (deb available in unstable, simply need to rebuild on sarge)
and the bcmxcp_usb driver (use "port = auto" as the automagic device path)

Arnaud
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