[Nut-upsuser] Re: Xserve, USB, NUT

[Charles Lepple]

On 1/7/06, Ted <nups at bjmoose.com> wrote:
> failed to claim USB device...
> HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 61939)
> Unable to get Report descriptor (-1)

This is the message I was thinking about:

   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.libusb.devel.general/249

Basically, to prevent the system UPS driver from grabbing your UPS
(subsequently allowing access via libusb, and therefore NUT), you need
a dummy kernel extension.

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- Charles Lepple