[Nut-upsuser] Liebert UPS GXT3 and Debian 6

[Arnaud Quette]

2011/6/8 Don Gould <don at bowenvale.co.nz>

> On 8/06/2011 11:04 p.m., Charles Lepple wrote:
>
>> On Jun 8, 2011, at 6:29 AM, Don Gould wrote:
>>
>>  it was suggested to me that nut might support my new ups.
>>>
>>> I have a headless debian box that it will be powering.
>>>
>>> Can someone tell me what packages I need to install?
>>>
>>
>> The base package for NUT in Debian is just called "nut" (currently at
>> version 2.4.3):
>>
>>   http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/nut
>>
>> However, I don't think any of the NUT developers currently own a GXT3,
>>
>
> Well I have one and I'm more than willing to provide system access to the
> devs if they want to help figure this out.
>
> I've been though a number of weeks bouncing messages at the manufacture of
> the UPS to end up with a less than satisfactory answer and I'd just love to
> see this puppy with some functional FLOSS driving it.
>
> D
>
>
>  and we are waiting to hear back from another user as to whether the latest
>> version of NUT handles that device any better.
>>
>
> Ya, I saw your other message.  Debian repo is at ver 2.4.3 and the current
> SVN is some what more advanced....  I'm happy to help with some testing if
> people are happy to help baby the newbi :)


FYI, I've uploaded 2.6.1-1 in unstable 4 days ago.
this would obviously need a squeeze backport, but already provide a part of
the answer...

cheers,
Arnaud
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