[Nut-upsuser] bcmxcp_usb "Can't open POWERWARE USB device"

[Kjell Claesson]

Hi all,

To Arnaud. Yes the 5115 is talking bcmxcp but it is not working with the
bcmxcp_usb driver. I got some help from a Australian guy to test this.
But it look's like the first try of usb from powerware was flaky.
Even the windows driver loses contact to the ups.
It is usb ver1.1 so i made a small test program that i can change
the timeout in. But it would not help.
But i'm on to it.
The 5115 is talkin bcmxcp on the serial port and the 3110 is a generic
contact closure on the dsub. So if the computer is equiped with a serial
port it is still possible to get it to run.

We also have the 'new' udev that take over the cold and hotplug function.
And we have the 'hal' that i think overlapping some of the functions.
And i think the documentation is not up to date to get this to run.

And the about the device. It is safer to have it running on auto.
If you set the '/proc/bus/usb/00x/00x' for the port and then plug in
some other usb device, it is not shure that it is pointing on the
right device when it restarts.

Then i have a problem. My computer is down due to a faulty mainboard,
so i can't test anything, and do any coding. Hopfully i be back in the end of the
week. (Sneaked in on one of my son's computer to get my mail)
This comes in a bad time as i hade some time to spare to catch up on this.

Regards
Kjell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Yee" <kenkyee at yahoo.com>
To: <nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:18 AM
Subject: [Nut-upsuser] bcmxcp_usb "Can't open POWERWARE USB device"


> I tried switching to the USB version of bcmxcp_usb and
> get this error when I try starting up upsdrvctl or
> bcmxcp_usb like so:
> /etc/nut/bcmxcp_usb -DDDD -a powerware -u nut 
> 
> I used this for ups.conf:
> [powerware]
>         driver = bcmxcp_usb
>         port = auto
> 
> With the serial/usb dongle, I used this successfully:
> [powerware]
>         driver = bcmxcp
>         port = /dev/ttyUSB0
> 
> What devices does "auto" look for?  I don't have a
> /dev/usb, but I do have /proc/bus/usb, so I tried
> setting the port to /proc/bus/usb/002/003 which
> is what it shows up as in dmesg when I plug it in,
> but I get the same error msgs as when I set the
> port to "auto" :-P
> 
>  ken
> 
> 
> 
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