[Nut-upsuser] Problems with APC Smart-UPS 1500 USB and newhidups driver

[Arnaud Quette]

2006/8/25, Paolo Pedroni <paolo.pedroni at unimib.it>:
> Whenever I try to use the newhidups driver with my new UPS I get the following
> message:
>
> #/lib/nut/newhidups -DDD -a SmartUps1500
> Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.4)
>
> debug level is '3'
> [...skip unrelevant device...]
> Checking device (051D/0002) (001/005)
> - VendorID: 051d
> - ProductID: 0002
> - Manufacturer: American Power Conversion
> - Product: Smart-UPS 1500 FW:601.3.I USB FW:1.5
> - Serial Number: AS0523120710
> - Bus: 001
> Trying to match device
> Device matches
> HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 61939)
> Size read for the report descriptor: 4294967274
> Unable to get Report descriptor (-22)
> [...skip other unrelevant devices...]
> No appropriate HID device found
> No matching USB/HID UPS found
>
> Of course the driver does not start.
>
> Any help?

IIRC, Peter has fixed the report desc retrieval in the development
tree, and a backport is scheduled for 2.0.5.
if you want to test the trunk, see:
http://eu1.networkupstools.org/source.html

Arnaud
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