[Nut-upsuser] "No matching HID UPS found" with TrippLite SMX1500LCD

[Charles Lepple]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Roman Serbski <mefystofel at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I'm having problems with TrippLite SMX1500LCD not being detected by
>  NUT under FreeBSD 6.3-RC2. NUT 2.2.1 was installed from ports with the
>  following options:
[...]
>  #cat /etc/devfs.rules
>  [nut_usb=10]
>  add path 'uhid0' group wheel user uucp mode 0660

Hi,

NUT support for USB HID on FreeBSD is still experimental at the
moment, but you may be able to get the driver to detect the UPS by
removing the uhid driver from the kernel. Since we use libusb and not
the uhid API, the uhid kernel driver prevents libusb from seeing the
UPS.

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- Charles Lepple