[Nut-upsuser] Sucess with Powerware 5115A over USB!

[Kjell Claesson]

Hi Daniel,

Send the output of 'lsusb' and I have a check.

The latest driver 0.14 should support 5115 (not A as I can see)
So the problem is that they may have fixed the lousy implementation
of the usb in the 5115A but have not changed the vendor and product id.

If so i have to rework the 5115 9120 (partly 3110) fix to the driver.

Best regards
Kjell

Den Friday 14 March 2008 02.02.40 skrev Daniel Burr:
> THE GOOD:
>
> NUT is able to communicate with my Powerware 5115A over USB using the
> bcmxcp_usb driver:
>
> ambient.temperature: 38
> battery.charge: 99
> battery.runtime: 9000
> battery.voltage: 27.07
> driver.name: bcmxcp_usb
> driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2
> driver.parameter.port: auto
> driver.version: 2.2.1
> driver.version.internal: 0.13
> input.frequency: 50.34
> input.voltage: 235
> output.current:  0.0
> output.frequency: 50.34
> output.phases: 1
> output.voltage: 235
> output.voltage.nominal: 240
> ups.firmware: Cont:01.00 Inve:10.05
> ups.load:   0.0
> ups.model: 51151000A           1000VA
> ups.power.nominal: 1000
> ups.serial: UZ117A0044
> ups.status: OL
>
>
> THE BAD:
>
> Powerware 5115A support is not included in the latest release (2.2.1).
> When I try to run `/lib/nut/bcmxcp_usb -a powerware` with the latest
> debian package installed I see the following error message which has
> previously been reported on the mailing list in October 2005 and June
> 2007:
>
> Communications with UPS lost: Receive error (Request command): COMMAND:
> 31
>
> RECONNECT USB DEVICE
>
> Communications with UPS lost: Receive error (Request command): COMMAND:
> 31
>
> RECONNECT USB DEVICE
>
> Communications with UPS lost: Error executing command
> Could not communicate with the ups: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
>
> THE UGLY:
>
> It is possible to create a deb with patched in support for the Powerware
> 5115A using the following steps:
>
> 1. sudo apt-get source nut
> 2. sudo apt-get build-dep nut
> 3. wget
> 'http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nut/trunk/drivers/nut_usb.c?op=file&rev=1220&sc
>=1' -O nut_usb.c.new 4. wget
> 'http://boxster.ghz.cc/projects/nut/browser/trunk/scripts/udev/nut-usbups.r
>ules.in?format=raw' -O nut-usbups.rules.in.new 5. wget
> 'http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nut/trunk/drivers/nut_usb.h?op=file&rev=1220&sc
>=1' -O nut_usb.h.new 6. mkdir nut-2.2.1/debian/patches
> 7. diff -ruN nut-2.2.1/drivers/nut_usb.c nut_usb.c.new | dpatch
> patch-template -p > nut-2.2.1/debian/patches/01-nut_usb.c
> 8. diff -ruN nut-2.2.1/drivers/nut_usb.h nut_usb.h.new | dpatch
> patch-template -p > nut-2.2.1/debian/patches/03-nut_usb.h
> 9. diff -ruN nut-2.2.1/scripts/udev/nut-usbups.rules.in
> nut-usbups.rules.in.new | dpatch patch-template -p >
> nut-2.2.1/debian/patches/02-nut-usbups.rules.in
> 10. cd nut-2.2.1/
> 11. echo -e '01-nut_usb.c\n02-nut-usbups.rules.in\n03-nut_usb.h' >
> debian/patches/00list
> 12. sudo dpkg-buildpackage -tc
> 13. sudo dpkg -i ../nut_2.2.1-2_i386.deb
>
>
> Thanks for all your hard work!
> Daniel Burr
>
>
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