[Nut-upsuser] Gentoo Ultra USB UPS

[Barry Fawthrop]

Hi  Jonathan

> To know that, run :
> newhidups -DD -u root -x generic -x vendorid=0d9f auto
> Look what is exposed, and see if another drivers expose the same
> variable. If it exist, modify the claim function so it claim your UPS
> (and if it work, please send us a patch ^_^)
>
I could not find a newhidups
locate newhidups
/lib/nut/newhidups
/usr/share/man/man8/newhidups.8.gz
no executable newhidups file

However when I run
/usr/sbin/upsd -DDD
I get
 /usr/sbin/upsd -DDD
Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.3
Can't connect to UPS [Ultra1] (newhidups-auto): No such file or directory
Synchronizing........ giving up
acl_check: localhost: match 0
acl_check: network: match 0
acl_check: self: match 1
ACL [self] matches, action=1
Connection from 24.73.215.62
acl_check: localhost: match 0
acl_check: network: match 0
acl_check: self: match 1
ACL [self] matches, action=1
write: [destfd=5] [len=27] [ERR FEATURE-NOT-CONFIGURED
]
acl_check: localhost: match 0
acl_check: network: match 0
acl_check: self: match 1
ACL [self] matches, action=1
write: [destfd=5] [len=3] [OK
]
acl_check: localhost: match 0
acl_check: network: match 0
acl_check: self: match 1
ACL [self] matches, action=1
write: [destfd=5] [len=3] [OK
]
acl_check: localhost: match 0
acl_check: network: match 0
acl_check: self: match 1
ACL [self] matches, action=1
write: [destfd=5] [len=16] [ERR UNKNOWN-UPS
]
acl_check: localhost: match 0
acl_check: network: match 0
acl_check: self: match 1
ACL [self] matches, action=1
write: [destfd=5] [len=16] [ERR UNKNOWN-UPS
]
acl_check: localhost: match 0
acl_check: network: match 0
acl_check: self: match 1
ACL [self] matches, action=1
write: [destfd=5] [len=16] [ERR UNKNOWN-UPS
]
acl_check: localhost: match 0
acl_check: network: match 0
acl_check: self: match 1
ACL [self] matches, action=1
write: [destfd=5] [len=16] [ERR UNKNOWN-UPS
]
acl_check: localhost: match 0
acl_check: network: match 0
acl_check: self: match 1
ACL [self] matches, action=1
write: [destfd=5] [len=16] [ERR UNKNOWN-UPS
]
acl_check: localhost: match 0
acl_check: network: match 0
acl_check: self: match 1
ACL [self] matches, action=1
write: [destfd=5] [len=16] [ERR UNKNOWN-UPS
]

and this keeps scrolling the last group repeatedly as can be seen
Any ideas what I could attempt next ?

Thanks again all
Barry