AW: AW: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H650 on USB port

[Peter Selinger]

Philipp Leusmann wrote:
> 
> Ok, I tried this and my results seem to bet he same as reported. Then I
> think I=B4ll have to stick with the windows-driver at least on my main
> machine.=20
> Or is there anything I can help to fix this driver?

I don't know why we can't read anything from this device.  There are
many ways in which one could make a buggy device that works with the
vendor's driver, but is otherwise USB-non-compliant. Perhaps the
device has some dumb behavior, like it expects a buffer that is
exactly 13 bytes larger than the size of the data, or it needs some
initialization that we don't know about. I am not very hopeful about
being able to guess it. -- Peter

> > -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Peter Selinger [mailto:selinger at mathstat.dal.ca]
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2006 19:18
> > An: Philipp Leusmann
> > Cc: Nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > Betreff: Re: AW: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H650 on USB port
> >=20
> > We have seen a Belkin F6H500ukUNV before that looked very similar.  We
> > did not get it to work. See Robert Kent's thread on the nut-upsdev
> > mailing list in September.
> >=20
> > First, the manufacturer is using an illegal vendor id (0001) in
> > violation of the USB protocol. Second, the device does not seem to be
> > working properly within the USB specifications; when trying to
> > communicate with it, it only returns broken pipes.
> >=20
> > Your immediate problem is a permissions problem; you should use the
> > "-u root" option or else the driver drops root privileges before
> > connecting to the device. You can also set up hotplugging to give
> > correct ownership to the /proc/bus/usb/002/003 device (or similar),
> > but "-u root" should do as a temporary solution.
> >=20
> > Start the driver like this:
> >=20
> > /lib/nut/newhidups -u root -DD -x generic -x vendorid=3D0001 auto
> >=20
> > If you see lots of "Broken pipe" messages, then your device has the
> > same problems as Robert Kent's. Else, please post the output.
> >=20
> > As the author of the belkinunv driver, and the maintainer of the
> > Belkin subdriver of newhidups, I usually advise people to avoid Belkin
> > at all cost. They produce crappy hardware that often breaks the USB
> > protocol and should not be allowed to operate. In some cases, even
> > their own software does not work properly with their devices.
> >=20
> > -- Peter
> >=20
> > Philipp Leusmann wrote:
> > >
> > > Now I got the svn-release but I still don't have any success.
> > > These are the result of my trials:
> > >
> > > ----
> > > miles:/usr/src/nut/trunk# lsusb
> > > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0001:0000 Fry's Electronics
> > > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 =
> Serial
> > > Port
> > > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > miles:/usr/src/nut/trunk# /lib/nut/newhidups -x bus=3D002
> > > /dev/usb/hiddev0
> > > Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30
> > > (2.1.0)
> > >
> > > No matching HID UPS found
> > > miles:/usr/src/nut/trunk# /lib/nut/newhidups -x bus=3D002:003
> > > /dev/usb/hiddev0
> > >
> > > Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30
> > > (2.1.0)
> > >
> > > No matching HID UPS found
> > > miles:/usr/src/nut/trunk# /lib/nut/newhidups -x generic -x
> > > vendorid=3D0001
> > > /dev/usb/hiddev0
> > > Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30
> > > (2.1.0)
> > >
> > > No matching HID UPS found
> > > ----
> > >
> > > Is the vendor-ID of 1 ok for my device? Or is it an error?
> > >
> > > Philipp
> > >
> > > > -----Urspr=3DFCngliche Nachricht-----
> > > > Von: Peter Selinger [mailto:selinger at mathstat.dal.ca]
> > > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2006 14:52
> > > > An: Philipp Leusmann
> > > > Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > > > Betreff: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6H650 on USB port
> > > >
> > > > You should first get a current version of NUT. Get release 2.0.4 =
> or
> > > > later, and preferably the Development version (see
> > > > http://www.networkupstools.org/source.html -> "Develoment Tree").
> > > >
> > > > The driver to use is newhidups. -- Peter
> > > >
> > > > Philipp Leusmann wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > is there a way to use my Belkin F6H650 on the USB port?
> > > > > I already installed usbhid-support, but neither the hidups =
> worked
> > > > (reports
> > > > > "/dev/usb/hiddev0 is not a UPS") nor genericups with upstype=3D7 =
> and
> > > the
> > > > > hiddev set as device ("ioctl TIOCMSET: Invalid argument") =
> worked.
> > > > > I have installed the debian sarge package of nut 2.0.1 (2.0.1-4)
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >  Philipp
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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