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

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Kjell and Daniel,

my relocation and reinstallation is well on the way, and I'm back
(with commit access ;-).
so 2.2.2 is relaunched. If you have anything to test, and that should
enter 2.2.2, do it quickly.

the deb will follow soon, but still no cdbs.

Finally, I should have some news about Powerware's implication in NUT this week.

2008/3/14, Kjell Claesson <kjell.claesson at epost.tidanet.se>:
> 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

cheers,
Arnaud
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