[Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] UPS on Freenas

[Charles Lepple]

On Jul 2, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Bobby Kent wrote:

> Not sure an upgrade will help you much though, as Charles said:
>
> "Also, the USB support in FreeBSD prior to 8.0 is not very usable  
> from the
> NUT perspective. No guarantees it will get better if you upgrade,  
> but I had
> a lot of problems trying to get tripplite_usb to work under FreeBSD  
> 6.x and
> 7.x."

I wasn't terribly clear here - the architecture for the USB stack in  
FreeBSD 8.0 is a big improvement over prior versions, but that may not  
be sufficient to make John's UPS work.

Also, FreeNAS 8.0 is based off of FreeBSD 8.1:

http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2010/11/freenas-8-beta-released.html

FreeNAS 8 seems to require more capable hardware than FreeNAS 7:

http://www.freenas.org/category/version-comparison