[Nut-upsuser] Gentoo Ultra USB UPS

[Barry Fawthrop]

Hi Jonathan

I did find in the trunk/drivers directory a powercom.c/.h and see it is 
all serial based
could this not be adapted to USB as well ??

Thanks
Barry

Jonathan Dion wrote:
> Hello Barry,
>
> Too bad PowerCom didn't accept to give you their HID usage table... As
> if it is a confidential and very important information... Are you sure
> you still want to use an UPS from such a manufacturer ?
> When will manufacturer understand that linux is not just a dream or a
> children game ? Some manifacturer did (like MGE), and we should
> support them !
>
> Anyway, back to your compilation problem :
>
>
> On 8/3/06, Barry Fawthrop <barry at ttienterprises.org> wrote:
>>
>> What am I doing wrong
>>
>> added ultra.o
>>
>> I changed drivers/Makefile.in
>> NEWHIDUPS_SUBDRIVERS = generic-hid.o mge-hid.o apc-hid.o  utlra.o  \
>>   belkin-hid.o tripplite-hid.o
>>
>> added ultra.o
>> drivers/Makefile.drvbuild
>> newhidups.o: newhidups.c main.h ../include/common.h \
>>   ../include/attribute.h ../include/config.h ../include/proto.h \
>>   ../include/version.h ../include/upsconf.h dstate.h \
>>   ../include/attribute.h ../include/parseconf.h 
>> ../include/upshandler.h \
>>   ../include/extstate.h libhid.h ../include/config.h hidtypes.h \
>>   ../include/timehead.h newhidups.h libusb.h mge-hid.h generic-hid.h \
>>   apc-hid.h ultra.h belkin-hid.h tripplite-hid.h
>>
>> and added
>>
>> ultra.o: ultra.c newhidups.h ../include/config.h libhid.h hidtypes.h \
>>   ../include/timehead.h ultra.h ../include/extstate.h dstate.h \
>>   ../include/attribute.h ../include/parseconf.h 
>> ../include/upshandler.h \
>>   ../include/common.h ../include/attribute.h ../include/config.h \
>>   ../include/proto.h ../include/version.h
>>
>>
>> newhidups.c
>>
>> added ultra.h
>>
>> #ifndef SHUT_MODE
>>         #include "generic-hid.h"
>>         #include "apc-hid.h"
>>         #include "ultra.h"
>>         #include "belkin-hid.h"
>>         #include "tripplite-hid.h"
>> #endif
>>
>> make usb gives
>>  make usb
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/svn/trunk/drivers'
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare  -c newhidups.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare   -c -o main.o main.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare   -c -o dstate.o dstate.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare   -c -o ../common/state.o
>> ../common/state.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare   -c -o ../common/upsconf.o
>> ../common/upsconf.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare   -c -o ../common/parseconf.o
>> ../common/parseconf.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare   -c -o ../common/common.o
>> ../common/common.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare  -c libhid.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare  -c libusb.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare -c hidparser.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare  -c generic-hid.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare  -c mge-hid.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare  -c apc-hid.c
>> gcc -I../include -O -Wall -Wsign-compare  -c
>> gcc: no input files
>> make[1]: *** [utlra.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/svn/trunk/drivers'
>>
>> What did I do wrong ?
>>
>
> You shouldn't modify Makefile.drvbuild, as it is automatically generated.
> And please name your subdriver ultra-hid and not just ultra (just a
> detail, but all subdriver names are *-hid), thank ^_^
>
> So, as you did, add ultra-hid.o to the NEWHIDUPS_SUBDRIVERS list in
> driver/Makefile.in
>
> then run (assuming you are in the root of NUT source) :
> cd drivers && make depend
> cd .. && ./configure && make usb
>
> That should do the trick ;-)
>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Barry
>>
>>
>>
>
> Cordially,
>
> Jonathan Dion
>
>
>