[Nut-upsuser] ULTRA 2000 ULT33046 configuration
JW Simpson
john at swajime.com
Mon Nov 23 20:55:28 UTC 2009
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 21:16 +0100, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> Citeren Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
>
> > Now that you mention the cypress_m8 driver again, I remember that, but
> > I also don't put much stock in VID:PID combinations these days, since
> > it is becoming more common for companies to "borrow" them from other
> > well-known companies.
>
> This VID:PID is probably used in many PowerCOM devices, to give older
> RS-232 designs USB connectivity. A neat solutions, as long as there
> are drivers to create a /dev/ttyUSBx port on the host. But of course
> it won't tell you anything about the underlying serial protocol that
> is used. Powercom seems to have used both 'megatec' and what we now
> call 'powercom'.
>
> > I'm thinking that the year it was manufactured might be a concise
> > discriminator to put in the HCL.
>
> Someone posted a usbsnoop log file to this list (for the same ULT33046
> type) on Jan 2nd this year. This very much looked like the protocol
> that is used by the 'powercom' driver, so I think this should be the
> correct one.
>
> Best regards, Arjen
Some more digging gave me this:
root at system76-pc:/etc/nut# cat /proc/tty/driver/usbserial
usbserinfo:1.0 driver:2.0
0: module:cypress_m8 name:"HID->COM RS232 Adapter" vendor:0d9f
product:0002 num_ports:1 port:1 path:usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
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