[Nut-upsuser] Eaton USB PowerWare 3105

[Brendan Kelly]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:17 -0400, Charles Lepple wrote:
<snip>
> > > since it's an USB ups, you should not need to touch /dev/ttyS1 (that is
> > > the serial port)
> >
> > The system appears to map /dev/ttyS1 to the right USB port - I have no
> > idea how. My entry in ups.conf is:
> > [pw3105]
> >                  driver = bcmxcp_usb
> >                  port = /dev/ttyS1
> > This seems to work.
> 
> I think Lonely Wolf is right - you do not need to modify permissions
> on /dev/ttyS1. According to the man page, the bcmxcp_usb driver only
> supports one UPS, and apparently the port name just has to be some
> placeholder value (the man page suggests "auto"). (Not saying that you
> should change anything, just that there is no connection.)
> 
Interesting as when I change port to auto I get the following but if I
put it back to /dev/ttyS1 it works again! I admit confusion :-)

Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Can't claim POWERWARE USB interface
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Network UPS Tools - BCMXCP UPS driver
0.10 (2.0.3)
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl:
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Unable to find POWERWARE UPS device on
USB bus
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl:
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Things to try:
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl:
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl:  - Connect UPS device to USB bus
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl:
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl:  - Run this driver as another user
(upsdrvctl -u or 'user=...' in ups.conf).
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl:    See upsdrvctl(8) and ups.conf(5).
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl:
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Network UPS Tools - UPS driver
controller 2.0.3
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Fatal error: unusable configuration
Jun  7 10:50:17 p120 upsdrvctl: Driver failed to start (exit status=1)