[Nut-upsuser] mge pc 675 does not work with usb-hidups

[John L. Korpi]

I had the same problem with the 2.2.0 on Gentoo (kernel 2.2.23) until I turned 
this on and built a new kernel:

CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS=y

John 


On Friday 28 December 2007 18:04:28 christophe wrote:
> Le mardi 25 décembre 2007 11:33, Arjen de Korte a écrit :
> > > On opensuse 10.3, i installed nut and configured my ups.conf like i did
> > > it on opensuse 10.2 by putting (10.3 , nut 2.2.0):
> > >
> > > [MGEpc675]
> > >         driver = usbhid-ups
> > >         port = auto
> > >         desc = "MGEpc675"
> > >
> > > instead of (10.2 , nut 2.0.4) :
> > >
> > > [MGEpc675]
> > >         driver = newhidups
> > >         port = auto
> > >         desc = "MGEpc675"
> > >
> > > But it doesn't work.
> >
> > What does the output of 'rpm -q nut' show you?
> >
> > > It appears that upsdrvctl does not succeed. It says it cannot find any
> > > USB HID device.
> >
> > The NUT package that was shipped with openSUSE 10.3 is badly broken with
> > respect to USB support. Make sure that you install *all* updates and
> > restart your system before attempting to configure NUT. This has to deal
> > with how newer kernels deal with udev, which is incompatible with earlier
> > versions.
> >
> > Best regards, Arjen
>
> Thanks for your quick reply and sorry for my late reply because i could not
> access the concerned computer since then.
>
> To answer your question :
> $ rpm -q nut
> nut-2.2.0-20.2
>
> The system is up to date and there is still nothing new. Or is there any
> ealier version that i can rpm -i from any correct repository ?
> It is sadly true that there might be some udev strange stuff disabling
> access to USB HID device. I'd be glas to know how to repair it.
>
> Thanks.



-- 
John Korpi on the North Coast.