[Nut-upsuser] Possible support for Trust 1300VA LCD Management UPS?

[Charles Lepple]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:11 AM, David Quinn <d_a_quinn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 6 Sep 2011, at 14:14, Charles Lepple wrote:
>
> David: I use Fink instead of MacPorts, so I'm not sure how they handle
> libusb. NUT uses the 0.1 API, but that can either be provided by
> libusb-0.1.x (currently 0.1.12) or by the compatibility layer of libusb-1.0.
> Can you check on that version number?
>
> Also, OS X has the concept of security contexts, and I think that USB
> devices are "owned" by processes in the console context. Are you starting
> the NUT driver from a console context (e.g. Terminal.app while logged in),
> versus from a SSH session?
>
> Charles, thank you for your reply. My developer skills are beyond rusty and
> i'm new to the osx environment, but I hope I can answer your questions
> correctly.
> First off, here is everything macports knows about usb:
> usbprog                        @0.1.8          cross/usbprog
> libusb                         @1.0.8          devel/libusb
> libusb-compat                  @0.1.3          devel/libusb-compat
> libusb-devel                   @1.0.8.20101017 devel/libusb-devel
> libusb-legacy                  @0.1.12         devel/libusb-legacy
> usbmuxd                        @1.0.7          devel/usbmuxd
> py26-pyusb                     @0.4.2          python/py26-pyusb
> py26-pyusb-devel               @1.0.0-a1       python/py26-pyusb-devel
> py27-pyusb-devel               @1.0.0-a1       python/py27-pyusb-devel
> Secondly, I am executing everything via Terminal (I dont know how to ssh
> stuff to be honest).
> Hope that helps.
> Dave

Hmm, you have both libusb-compat and libusb-legacy. Unfortunately,
that alone doesn't tell us what NUT is linked against.

What does "otool -L <path-to-drivers>/blazer_usb" show? Not sure what
that path would be for MacPorts, but it's probably something under
/opt.

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- Charles Lepple