[Nut-upsuser] HP T/R2200 G2

[Charles Lepple]

On Sep 10, 2008, at 8:29 AM, James Harper wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2008 22:11
>> To: James Harper
>> Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] HP T/R2200 G2
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:18 AM, James Harper
>> <james.harper at bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone had any success with the HP T/R2200 G2? I have used the
>>>> T/R2200 with nut a few times before and it works great, but the G2
>>>> doesn't want to talk to me.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried bcmxcp from 2.0.4, 2.2.2, and svn, as well as the usb
>>>> drivers. Maybe the G2 isn't a rebadged powerware unit?
>>
>> What errors are you getting with the USB drivers? (Permissions are a
>> little more complicated with USB peripherals.)
>
> 'Can't open POWERWARE USB device, retrying ...' with the bcmxcp_usb
> driver.
>
> I'm running the drivers directly for testing, and specifying '-u root'
> to make sure that permissions aren't an issue. An strace shows no  
> access
> denied type errors.
>
>>> One more thing... if it helps, the usb info is:
>>>
>>> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 03f0:1f0a Hewlett-Packard
>>
>> What does 'lsusb -vvv -d 03f0:1f0a' return?
>>
>
> Attached.
>
> The source code definitely makes no reference to that vendorid or
> productid that I can see.
>
> I did try the '-x explore' with the usbhid-ups driver (2.2.2 version),
> debug output of that is attached if that helps.

The output looks like it could be relatively easily supported by  
usbhid-ups. I'm forwarding it to the -dev list.

(For reference, the debug output compresses easily.)

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Charles Lepple
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