[Nut-upsuser] Re: RE Powerware 5115 and USB

[Georg Rehm]

> >     ./bcmxcp_usb -DDD -u root -a upsname

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Ok, here we go (I snipped most of the "Can't ..." lines):

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botticelli:/usr/local/ups/bin# ./bcmxcp_usb -DDD -u root -a botticelli-ups
Network UPS Tools - BCMXCP UPS driver 0.10 (2.0.3)

debug level is '3'
Can't open POWERWARE USB device, retrying ...
Can't open POWERWARE USB device, retrying ...
[...]
Can't open POWERWARE USB device, retrying ...
Can't open POWERWARE USB device, retrying ...
Can't open POWERWARE USB device
Unable to find POWERWARE UPS device on USB bus 

Things to try:

 - Connect UPS device to USB bus

 - Run this driver as another user (upsdrvctl -u or 'user=...' in
   ups.conf).
   See upsdrvctl(8) and ups.conf(5).

Fatal error: unusable configuration
botticelli:/usr/local/ups/bin# 

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So, is it really true that I do *not* need a working hiddev subsystem
to get this Powerware 5115 to work over USB? If I no longer need hiddev,
why does 2.0.3's configure still allow to specify the path to hiddev.h?
If bcmxcp_usb just needs libusb: is there any way to make sure that my
libusb does indeed work as expected? Now I'm in the situation that I
don't know whether my USB subsystem is broken, whether there is a bug
in nut 2.0.3 or the Powerware 5115 is not supported via USB. Any hints?

Best,
Georg

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