[Nut-upsuser] Liebert UPS GXT3 and Debian 6

[Charles Lepple]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Don,

There's a simple program that Peter Selinger wrote a few years ago to
grab some of the information from the UPS's USB interface - I'll dig
that up and we can try to figure out what's going on. As a minimum,
you'll need the Debian build-essentials package, as well as
libusb-dev.

>>> 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...

Arnaud,

Whom should we bug about a backport? :-)

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- Charles Lepple