[Nut-upsuser] APC Back-UPS ES 700 under FreeBSD

[Marius Nünnerich]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Marius Nünnerich <marius at nuenneri.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently trying to install a APC Back-UPS ES 700 on FreeBSD. This
> UPS has a usb connection to the PC and is recognized as:
>
> ugen0: APC Back-UPS ES 700 FW:829.D2 .I USB FWD2 rev 1.10/1.06, addr 2
>
> my ups.conf looks like:
> [back-ups]
>  driver = usbhid-ups
>  port = auto
>  desc = "server"
>
> When I now run /usr/local/libexec/nut/upsdrvctl start the output is:
> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.2
> Network UPS Tools: 0.29 USB communication driver - core 0.33 (2.2.2)
>
> No matching HID UPS found
> Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
>
> I chmodded /dev/ugen0 to 777 for testing but it doesn't help.
>
> Anyone has an idea what to try next? Maybe there is just some usb id
> missing in the driver so it will recognize this ups?
>
> Kind regards
> Marius
>

BTW has anyone this exact ups working with nut?