[Nut-upsuser] USB UPS and FreeBSD

[Vladimir Botka]

Hello,
for me the USB works on FreeBSD 6.0 with custom kernell. Please find notes 
on

http://wiki.botka.homeunix.org/bin/view/Main/NetworkUpsToolsUsb

There has been a thread about this issue recently. I wonder that your USB 
attaches to /dev/ugen0 on FreeBSD 6.0. I had to disable uhid driver to 
get ugen. All these problems are solved on 6.1 with libusb 0.1.12 has 
been reported.


Cheers,

 	-vlado

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On Mon, 22 May 2006, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> I am looking at the newhid driver for this Pulsar EXtreme here but it gives
> odd results, for example there is no status variable :)
>
> eg
> debug level is '2'
> Checking device (0463/FFFF) (/dev/usb0//dev/ugen0)
> - VendorID: 0463
> - ProductID: ffff
> - Manufacturer: unknown
> - Product: unknown
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: /dev/usb0
> Trying to match device
> Device matches
> HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 1535)
> Report descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 1535)
> Found HID device
> Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.3)
>
> Report Descriptor size = 1535
> Detected a UPS: unknown/unknown
> Using subdriver: MGE HID 0.8
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PowerSummaryID, Type: Feature, Value: 1.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.FlowID, Type: Feature, Value: 4.000000
> Can't retrieve Report 52 (-5/5): Input/output error
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.RemainingCapacityLimitSetting, Type: Feature
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.Rechargeable, Type: Feature, Value: 1.000000
> Path: UPS.PowerSummary.CapacityMode, Type: Feature, Value: 2.000000
> ...
>
> I get quite a number of IO errors - it seems these come from libusb but I am
> not sure under what circumstances it returns it.
>
> This is a 6.0 machine running NUT 2.0.3 - has anyone been able to connect to a
> USB UPS with FreeBSD?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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