[Nut-upsuser] APC Question...

[Arnaud Quette]

2007/1/12, Arjen de Korte <arjen at de-korte.org>:
> >> I've been following through the instructions on how to connect an APC
> >> BackUPS 650 ES to USB, and have it monitored with NUT...
>
> [...]
>
> >> root at excalibur:/usr/src/nut-2.0.4# ./drivers/newhidups -a apc -u root
> >> Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.4)
> >>
> >> No matching USB/HID UPS found
> >> root at excalibur:/usr/src/nut-2.0.4#
> >>
> >> Can anyone suggest a course of action I can take?..
> >
> > this should be due to the fact that you have not set the hotplug or udev
> > rules.
>
> Not very likely. He's running the driver as root, so this looks more like
> what was reported on the Bugs Tracker for an APC Back-Ups ES725:
>
> http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=411542&aid=304333&group_id=30602
>
> Solution is to upgrade to nut-2.0.5-pre2.

right, I've missed that one. thanks Arjen.
btw, the final 2.0.5 will be out either this afternoon, or on monday.

Arnaud
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