[Nut-upsuser] [HCL] MGE Pulsar Evolution 1100 - not recognized by USB driver

[Charles Lepple]

On Dec 22, 2011, at 11:31 AM, nut at johnea.net wrote:

>> 
>> Hi Charles, merci pour ta réponse,
>> 
>> You are right, I'm using FreeBSD 6.1 (x86) (I didn't have the time to
>> upgrade yet).
>> I'm using libusb-0.1.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>> 
>> Edouard
>> 
> 
> Bonjour Edouard,
> 
> I also run nut on FreeBSD.
> 
> I don't know if it causes the specifics of your issue, but I can say that there are MAJOR improvements to the USB subsystem as a whole in upgrading to the FreeBSD 8.x series (now 9.x is even better).
> 
> If you continue to find the problem intractable, consider the upgrade.

I agree - when trying to make tripplite_usb work on FreeBSD 6.x, I saw a lot of weird problems due to the kernel requesting updates from the hardware far more often than the NUT drivers would typically request them. The kernel buffers would fill, and the packets would get misaligned. It was a mess. Might not be as bad with usbhid-ups, but I think the upgrade is worthwhile for long-stability of your USB devices.

johnea might have more up-to-date information on which devices nodes will need their permissions changed such that NUT can access them while not running as root. If not, I can boot my 8.x box and see what needs to be done.