[Nut-upsuser] NUT and MGE Ellipse ASR 1500 under FreeBSD.

[Alex Bakhtin]

Hello,

        I have Ellipse ASR 1500 UPS and now I'm trying to monutor it with
NUT from FreeBSD. It seems that there are some problems with this UPS:

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ugen0: MGE UPS SYSTEMS ELLIPSE, rev 1.10/42.41, addr 2

> usbdevs -v
Controller /dev/usb0:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x0000),
NEC(0x0000), rev 1.00
 port 1 powered
 port 2 powered
 port 3 powered
Controller /dev/usb1:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x0000),
NEC(0x0000), rev 1.00
 port 1 powered
 port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb2:
addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000),
NEC(0x0000), rev 1.00
 port 1 powered
 port 2 powered
 port 3 powered
 port 4 powered
 port 5 powered
Controller /dev/usb3:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
 port 1 addr 2: low speed, power 20 mA, config 1, ELLIPSE(0xffff), MGE UPS
 SYSTEMS(0x0463), rev 42.41
 port 2 powered
>
> /usr/local/libexec/nut/newhidups -DDDD -a ellipse1500
Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30 (2.0.5)

debug level is '4'
Checking device (0463/FFFF) (/dev/usb3//dev/ugen0)
- VendorID: 0463
- ProductID: ffff
- Manufacturer: unknown
- Product: unknown
- Serial Number: unknown
- Bus: /dev/usb3
Trying to match device
Device matches
  Couldn't retrieve descriptors
No appropriate HID device found
No matching HID UPS found
>

[ellipse1500]
        driver = newhidups
        port = auto
        desc = "MGE Pulsar Ellipse 1500"
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        As you can see, newhidups can't match this device. After looking
into mge-hid.c, it seems that ProductID of 0xFFFF is something that this
driver doesn't like:
=======================
        case  0x0001:
        case  0xffff:
                return 1;  /* accept known UPSs */
======================

        Where is the problem? In UPS? In FreeBSD? Any ideas? Included
monitoring SW works fine on WinXP.

-- 
Best regards, Alex Bakhtin, CCIE #8439
AMT Group, Cisco Systems Gold Partner, http://www.amt.ru