[Nut-upsuser] Can not find the Belkin F6H375-USB

[Charles Lepple]

On 6/3/07, dcw <dwoody1 at charter.net> wrote:
> Thanks for your quick reply!
>
> On Sunday 03 June 2007 1:45 pm, you wrote:
> > On 6/3/07, dcw <dwoody1 at charter.net> wrote:
> > > I have changed over to CentOS5 on some of our computers. I had been using
> > > Mandriva 2006 and the nut software worked using:
> > >
> > > driver = newhidups
> > > port = auto
> >
> > Did you set up udev (or hotplug) to change ownership of the USB node
> > for the UPS (probably under either /proc/bus/usb or /dev/bus/usb)? See
> > scripts/udev or scripts/hotplug as appropriate.
>
> I had not done that. The source did not have scripts/udev but did have
> scripts/hotplug. I read the README for scripts/hotplug and installed the 2
> files as follows:
> [root]->l /etc/hotplug/usb
> total 8
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  478 Jun  3 14:07 libhidups
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1502 Jun  3 14:08 libhid.usermap
>
> It also said: call 'update-usb.usermap' or equivalent if needed
> Using yum whatprovides indicates that there are no packages that provide
>  this. I do not know what the equivalent would be.??

Not sure either. Actually, in both 2.0.4 and 2.0.5, the scripts/udev
directory was named "scripts/hotplug-ng" for historical reasons.

> > Are you installing from source or RPMs?
>
> I downloaded the 2.0.4 source tar.gz from networkupstools.org.

I believe there were some bugs in newhidups that got fixed in 2.0.5,
but I don't remember the details.

> > > Using the same version of nut with the same config files on CentOS5, I
> > > get the following error output from 'upsdrvctl':
> > >
> > > Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.0.4
> > > Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.4)
> > >
> > > No matching USB/HID UPS found
> > > Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
> >
> > If the udev/hotplug idea doesn't work, try starting the driver
> > manually to see what the error is:
> >
> > /path/to/newhidups -a <name-of-ups> -DD
>
> I ran the /etc/hotlug/usb/libhidups manually and verified the results.
> Then ran:
> /usr/local/ups/bin/newhidups -a ups -DD displays:
>
> Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.4)
>
> debug level is '2'
> Checking device (050D/0375) (001/005)
> - VendorID: 050d
> - ProductID: 0375
> - Manufacturer: unknown
> - Product: unknown
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: 001
> Trying to match device
> Device matches
> failed to claim USB device, trying 2 more time(s)...
> detaching kernel driver from USB device...
> failed to detach kernel driver from USB device...
> trying again to claim USB device...
> failed to claim USB device, trying 1 more time(s)...
> detaching kernel driver from USB device...
> failed to detach kernel driver from USB device...
> trying again to claim USB device...
> failed to claim USB device, trying 0 more time(s)...
> detaching kernel driver from USB device...
> failed to detach kernel driver from USB device...
> trying again to claim USB device...
> Unable to get HID descriptor (error sending control message: Operation not
> permitted)
> Checking device (0000/0000) (001/001)
> - VendorID: 0000
> - ProductID: 0000
> - Manufacturer: unknown
> - Product: unknown
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: 001
> Trying to match device
> Device does not match - skipping
> No appropriate HID device found
> No matching USB/HID UPS found
>
> The command '[root]->l /proc/bus/usb/001' displays:
>
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43 May 28 07:26 001
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57 May 28 07:26 003
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ups ups 52 Jun  3 14:22 005
>
> The last entry appears to be the UPS as that is the time I un-pluged and
> re-pluged the ups.

If you post some details about how other packages (possibly including
gphoto2 or gpsd) manage USB device permissions, we can adapt the
documentation to cover Mandriva as well.

-- 
- Charles Lepple