[Nut-upsuser] Problem using an Eaton Ellipse ASR 750 VA on FreeBSD

[Frederic Praca]

Great !! It worked.
In fact, the '-u' parameter you gave me allowed me to test as root and
see it working.
Changing owner to /dev/usb/4.2.* seemed to be insufficient and after
changing the owner of the /dev/ugen4.2.* link, it finally got detected.
Finally, it was easier than I thought and I should have tried this
beforehand.

Sorry for this dumb question :-)

Thanks for helping me, every remaining tasks are FreeBSD specific.

Fred

Le Sat, 5 Mar 2011 10:27:06 +1030,
"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> a écrit :

> 
> On 05/03/2011, at 4:50, Frederic Praca wrote:
> > As I feared, changing the group for ugen4.2 had no effect.
> > I used to try 'usbhid-ups' by hand under root account.
> > So the message still remains the same :
> > # ./usbhid-ups -a eaton
> > Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.35 (2.6.0)
> > USB communication driver 0.31
> > No matching HID UPS found
> 
> It will drop root privs though, try..
> ./usbhid-ups -u root -a eaton
> 
> I have an Ellipse 1000VA connected to my FreeBSD server using
> usbhid-ups
> 
> [midget 10:26] ~ >cat /usr/local/etc/nut/ups.conf   
> [mge]
>         driver = usbhid-ups
>         port = usb
>         # Give the system enough time to shutdown when the power fails
>         offdelay = 120
>         # ondelay must be greater than offdelay so change it too
>         ondelay = 130
>         ###pollonly
> 
> [midget 10:26] ~ >cat /usr/local/etc/devd/nut.conf 
> attach 100 {
>         match "vendor" "0x0463";
>         match "product" "0xffff";
>         action "/usr/sbin/chown nutmon: /dev/$device-name";
> };
> 
> I built my NUT port with a new user (nutmon) vs using uucp but that
> shouldn't mater.
> 
> > I wondered how the USB UPS are detected and if my UPS is described
> > in the source code. Any idea of where I should take a look ?
> 
> What happens when you run it with -D -D -D to enable debugging?
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Fred
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