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

[Frederic Praca]

> 
> On 05/03/2011, at 20:16, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> > We search for a VendorID / ProductID combination. The one you
> > posted earlier
> > 
> >  idVendor = 0x0463
> >  idProduct = 0xffff
> > 
> > is one of the combinations that are supported by the usbhid-ups
> > driver (it is used for all MGE / Eaton devices with USB HID PDC
> > support). If the driver can find this ID in the list of attached
> > devices, it should find it. But I guess this is something related
> > to the FreeBSD USB stack, which I know nothing of.
> 
> The root of the problem was the permissions on the ugen device node -
> when NUT dropped privs it couldn't open it.
> 
> I should clean up my script to translate udev rules into devd ones
> and send a patch for the NUT port to install it so the perms get
> changed automagically..
Personally, I made it working with this entry in devd.conf :
# Added for Eaton UPS support
attach 100 {
        match "vendor" "0x0463";
        match "product" "0xffff";
        action "/usr/sbin/chown -R -L uucp:uucp /dev/$device-name";
};
 
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> > Best regards, Arjen
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