[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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