[Nut-upsuser] newhidups and hidups drivers

[Peter Selinger]

Steve,

use newhidups, not hidups. You should do either this:

 ./configure --with-drivers=newhidups
 make

(to compile only the newhidups driver - saves a lot of time), or this:

 ./configure
 make
 make usb

(to compile all drivers). Note that simply "make" does not compile any
USB drivers by default, which is an outdated behavior and one that we
should probably change. 

Arnaud, what is your feeling about the "make usb" target? Does it
still serve a useful purpose? Also, are there any situations where the
hidups driver is still preferred/needed?  Perhaps we should change
drivers.txt to encourage people more strongly to use newhidups.  

-- Peter


strong.s at crwash.org wrote:
> 
> I just installed NUT and my UPS is an APC Back-UPS ES 500.  I looked in the list
> of drivers and found APC Back-UPS ES 350 listed in "drivers.txt" -- that list
> said I should use either the newhidups or hidups driver.  I looked in the
> installation and I found headers and c files to create these drivers (I think),
> but in /usr/local/ups/bin there is no driver named, "newhidups or hidups" --
> what have I messed up?
> 
> thanks for your help!!!
> steve
> 
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