[Nut-upsuser] Bogus "UPS not available" messages

Arjen de Korte nut+users at de-korte.org
Fri May 25 07:12:00 UTC 2007


> Arjen de Korte <nut+users at de-korte.org>:
>> Generally it is a good idea to run the driver in debug mode and see what
>> it is reporting then.
>>
>>      megatec_usb -u root -DDDDD -a <upsname>
>
> Looks like I'm going to have to write a troubleshooting guide...

We could sure use that.

> root at snark:/home/esr/svn/nut/trunk#  drivers/megatec_usb -u root -DDDDD -a
> myups

[...]

> Driver seems to work OK in this test mode.

The next step would be to see if it also recognizes the UPS if you skip the
'-u root' from the startup command line, to see if this is a permissions
problem.

Best regards, Arjen




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