[Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Max 1100 configuration question

[Chris Cohen]

Rejected by moderator... had to paste the attachment to 
http://paste.debian.net/3784/

On Thursday 22 May 2008 15:35:28 you wrote:
> >> Try to run the driver with '-u root -DD' to rule out permissions
> >> problems.
> >
> > Done. It shut down the UPS and my entire network. :(
>
> Weird. This is not something the driver can do, unless you
> specifically tell it to kill the power (-k). I see that you're using
> Linux 2.6.24-17-xen.
I do. (Running Ubuntu Hardy LTS)

> > But I redirected the output to a file which I attached. (I don't
> > know what all this means...)
>
> Well, it appear to detect the UPS all right:
> > Checking device (0463/FFFF) (001/008)
> > - VendorID: 0463
> > - ProductID: ffff
> > - Manufacturer: MGE UPS SYSTEMS
> > - Product: Ellipse MAX
> > - Serial Number: PbAc
> > - Bus: 001
> > Trying to match device
> > Device matches
> > HID descriptor length 882
> > Report Descriptor size = 882
> > Using subdriver: MGE HID 1.01
>
> Short of the weird value reported for the serial number, nothing
> wrong so far. It only looks like it reports the wrong indexed string,
> which is very strange. What does 'lsusb -vvv' report? 
I attached the relevent part as a file since its pretty long.

> I'm not sure if this isn't due to the fact that you seem to be running 
Linux 2.6.24-17-xen. I don't know if the libusb library will work with
> that.
Hmmm... I could install a non-xen kernel on dom0?

-- 
Thanks
Chris