[Nut-upsuser] can't connect to an Eaton Powerware 9155 over a usb-serial adapter

[Athanasios Silis]

hello everyone,
I've been testing the NUT solution as opposed to the undocumented LanSafe
application to control my Eaton UPS.

I am on a Slackware 13.37 system with a 2.6.37.6 kernel. NUT version is
2.4.3 .
I installed the tarball by compiling it directly on my system (as a
slackbuild package).
The UPS is an Eaton Powerware 9155, but I don't know how to obtain the
manufacturing date. The unit was bought sometime in 2006-2007 though.

The unit has a serial interface to communicate with a pc, and I am using a
usb-serial converter to connect it there. dmesg shows:

usb 6-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 6-2: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303
usb 6-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 6-2: Product: USB-Serial Controller
usb 6-2: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
pl2303 6-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
usb 6-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0

This converter appears to the system as /dev/ttyUSB0. But I presume for all
practical purposes I should assume that this is just another serial port
(correct me if that's wrong).

My ups.conf looks line:

 [DSAups]
        driver = bcmxcp
        port = /dev/ttyUSB0
        desc = "Eaton Powerware 9155"

I have ALSO attempted to run the drivers: bcmxcp-usb, upscode2, usbhid-ups
(just in case the /dev/ttyUSB0 is actually a USB look-alike port rather than
serial look-alike one) to no avail.

the debug output is the following:

root at samothraki:/usr/libexec/nut# ./bcmxcp -DDDDD -a DSAups
Network UPS Tools - BCMXCP UPS driver 0.23 (2.4.3)
RS-232 communication subdriver 0.17
   0.000000     send_to_all: SETINFO driver.parameter.port "/dev/ttyUSB0"
   0.000035     debug level is '5'
   0.008369     Attempting to autodect baudrate
   1.603672     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

   2.604114     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

   3.604528     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

   3.604547     No response from UPS on /dev/ttyUSB0 with baudrate 1200
   5.199170     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

   6.200268     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

   7.201363     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

   7.201386     No response from UPS on /dev/ttyUSB0 with baudrate 2400
   8.796693     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

   9.797796     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

  10.798900     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

  10.798924     No response from UPS on /dev/ttyUSB0 with baudrate 4800
  12.394722     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

  13.395824     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

  14.396925     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

  14.396949     No response from UPS on /dev/ttyUSB0 with baudrate 9600
  15.052002     Communications with UPS lost: checksum error!
  15.084000     Communications with UPS lost: Not the right sequence
received fe!!!

  16.084278     Receive error (PW_COMMAND_START_BYTE): 0!!!

  16.084306     No response from UPS on /dev/ttyUSB0 with baudrate 19200
  16.084312     Can't connect to the UPS on port /dev/ttyUSB0!

root at samothraki:/usr/libexec/nut#


Looks fairly dead to me as if theere was smth wrong with the cables. So I
installed a windows server 2008 virtual machine (on virtualbox) and attached
the /dev/ttyUSB0 to the virtual machine. There I installed the LanSafe
application provided by Eaton and voila, the system was working.

So there is something else going on here, directly on the host, which I
can't understand.
Any ideas?

Thank you in advance for your help
Nass
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