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

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 23:00, Alex Bakhtin wrote:
>  DO> I have not had much luck with MGE UPSs talking to FreeBSD boxes
> using DO> USB.
>
>      Arnaud Quette from MGE helped me to start driver. It's necessary
> to specify user, because by default it runs under 'nobody'
> privileges. But NUT still doesn't work, he sent me a link
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2007-February/00
>2295.html, which describes some bug in the FreeBSD USB implementation.

Yes, I have sort of communicated with an MGE UPS over USB but it wasn't 
reliable.

>  DO> I stick with RS232 and they work fine though.
>
>      Unfortunatelly, I have only one serial port on this box, which
> is used as a console now. The only chance to add another serial is
> usb-com adapter.

If you want reliable comms it's probably the only way to do it for now.

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