[Nut-upsuser] communications lost/established

[Charles Lepple]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:38 PM, ricman <ricman at neomedia.it> wrote:
> Scrive Douglas Parsons <doug at parsonsemail.com>:
>
>> One suggestion would to be to determine if the serial port is working and
>> what it is named without Nut involved. Use a terminal program and a loopback
>> or some known device to test and confirm the port. There are several cases
>> in the archives that talk about testing serial ports as well as Google.
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2010 5:19 PM, "ricman" <ricman at neomedia.it> wrote:
>>
>> Scrive Arjen de Korte <nut+users at de-korte.org <nut%2Busers at de-korte.org>>:
>>
>> > Citeren ricman <ricman at neomedia.it>: > > > here are a couple of logs: log
>> 1 and 2 are pretty simi...
>> serial-pci card installed and ups connected.
>> since it is the only serial port in use i guess it is ttyS0... anyway i
>> tried
>> ttyS0 and ttyS1 but it doesn't work.
>> connecting or not the cable the result doesn't change
>>
>>
>> Mar 18 22:02:40 maialinux upsd[2895]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
>> Mar 18 22:02:40 maialinux upsd[2895]: Can't connect to UPS [myups]
>> (blazer_ser-myups): No such file or directory
>> Mar 18 22:02:40 maialinux upsd[2903]: Startup successful
>> Mar 18 22:02:40 maialinux upsmon[2905]: Startup successful
>> Mar 18 22:02:40 maialinux upsd[2903]: User local_mon at 127.0.0.1 logged into
>> UPS
>> [myups]
>> Mar 18 22:02:40 maialinux upsmon[2908]: Poll UPS [myups at localhost] failed -
>> Driver not connected
>> Mar 18 22:02:40 maialinux upsmon[2908]: Communications with UPS
>> myups at localhost
>> lost
>> Mar 18 22:02:45 maialinux upsmon[2908]: Poll UPS [myups at localhost] failed -
>> Driver not connected
>> Mar 18 22:02:45 maialinux upsmon[2908]: UPS myups at localhost is unavailable
>> Mar 18 22:02:50 maialinux upsmon[2908]: Poll UPS [myups at localhost] failed -
>> Driver not connected
>>
>>
>> debug level is '3'
>> Trying megatec protocol...
>> send: Q1
>> read: timeout
>> blazer_status: short reply
>> Status read 1 failed
>> send: Q1
>> read: timeout
>> blazer_status: short reply
>> Status read 2 failed
>> send: Q1
>> read: timeout
>> blazer_status: short reply
>> Status read 3 failed
>> Trying mustek protocol...
>> send: QS
>> read: timeout
>> blazer_status: short reply
>> Status read 1 failed
>> send: QS
>> read: timeout
>> blazer_status: short reply
>> Status read 2 failed
>> send: QS
>> read: timeout
>> blazer_status: short reply
>> Status read 3 failed
>> Trying megatec/old protocol...
>> send: D
>> read: timeout
>> blazer_status: short reply
>> Status read 1 failed
>> send: D
>> read: timeout
>> blazer_status: short reply
>> Status read 2 failed
>> send: D
>> read: timeout
>> blazer_status: short reply
>> Status read 3 failed
>> No supported UPS detected
>> Network UPS Tools - Megatec/Q1 protocol serial driver 1.51 (2.4.1)
>>
>> where am i wrong?
>>
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>
>
> i don't have other serial devices.
> anyway lspci -v shows
>
> 0c:02.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9865 Multi-I/O Controller
> (prog-if 02)
>        Subsystem: Device a000:1000
>        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
>        I/O ports at e480 [size=8]
>        Memory at fbefb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>        Memory at fbefa000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
>
> 0c:02.1 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9865 Multi-I/O Controller
> (prog-if 02)
>        Subsystem: Device a000:1000
>        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
>        I/O ports at e800 [size=8]
>        Memory at fbefd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>        Memory at fbefc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
>
> (my pci card has 2 serial ports) so the card seems to work.
> i googled a bit but i still don't understand how to know for sure if i'm using
> ttyS0/1/...

Unfortunately, this isn't very conclusive evidence that the kernel is
talking to the add-on card.

If your motherboard has headers for serial ports, and the DB-9
connectors are not installed, the kernel will most likely still detect
the motherboard serial ports unless you disable them in the BIOS.

-- 
- Charles Lepple