[Nut-upsuser] Cannot get Tripplite su2200xla working on freebsd 7.1 nut 2.4.1

[Thomas Munn]

I finally solved it, if anyone else has a tripplite: use the following
method on freebsd:

First, you have to recompile the kernel to NOT use usbhid.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
Install the kernel, reboot the system.
Create the following config files:

/usr/local/etc/nut/ups.conf

[tripplite]
driver = usbhid-ups
port = auto
vendorid = 09ae
desc "Igor"

copy the upsd.conf.sample to upsd.conf file, change the 'listen' address to
appropriate values
chown the file to uucp (the default user that upsd becomes)

edit the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nut configuration file to start the driver
thingy as root (to get around the problem of driver permissions)
change the nut_prestart to have -u root

edit the /etc/rc.conf file to start nut:
nut_enable="yes"

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Thomas Munn <symgryph at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did recompile the kernel, per advice, but I still don't see any drivers
> (I removed usbhid from my kernel)...the device now looks like:
>
> addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),
> Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
>  port 1 powered
>  port 2 addr 2: low speed, self powered, config 1, TRIPP LITE UPS(0x4003),
> Tripp Lite(0x09ae), rev 0.00
>
> My ups.conf:
>
> [tripplite]
> driver=usbhid-ups
> port=auto
> desc="igor"
> vendorid=09ae
>
> So any other ideas welcome. I invoke usbhid-ups with the following:
>
> ./usbhid-ups -a tripplite -x explore -u root
>
> I added -x vendorid=09ae and changed the vendorid to 4003 as well. No luck.
> Any ideas?
>
> Thomas
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Thomas Munn wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I am having a devil of a time getting nut to work on freebsd. Here is
>> > what I have done. I am trying to load the drivers, and here is my
>> > ups.conf file:
>> >
>> > [tripplite]
>> >  driver=trippliteesu
>> >  port=auto
>> >
>> > When I dmesg on freebsd 7.1 for my usb device:
>> >
>> > uhid0: <Tripp Lite TRIPP LITE UPS, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2>
>> > on uhub0
>>
>> I would bet the problem is that uhid is picking it up and the NUT driver
>> uses libusb which requires ugen to attach to it (except in 8.0 where
>> libusb is part of base and can attach to any device).
>>
>> A quick test would be to not load uhid and plug the UPS in, you should
>> then see ugen grab it. After that NUT should work (you will need to
>> chown the device node for it though as NUT runs as non-root by
>> default).
>>
>> If that does work then do a send-pr with your usbdevs -v output and ask
>> for the UPS to be blacklisted from uhid.
>>
>> --
>> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
>> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
>> "The nice thing about standards is that there
>> are so many of them to choose from."
>>  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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>>
>
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