[Nut-upsuser] Zigor Ebro 650 compatibility
Martyn Hill
martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 21:30:21 UTC 2012
On 15/08/2012 22:23, Martyn Hill wrote:
> Hi Arnaud!
>
> On 14/08/2012 21:50, Arnaud Quette wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2012/8/14 Martyn Hill <martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com
>> <mailto:martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com>>
>>
>> On 11/08/2012 21:27, Arnaud Quette wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/8/11 Martyn Hill <martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com>>
>>>
>>> On 11/08/2012 21:00, Chris Rees wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11 August 2012 20:52, Martyn Hill
>>> <martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/08/2012 20:48, Chris Rees wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11 August 2012 20:29, Martyn Hill
>>> <martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/08/2012 20:24, Chris Rees wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11 August 2012 19:14, Arnaud Quette
>>> <aquette.dev at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:aquette.dev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/8/11 Chris Rees
>>> <utisoft at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:utisoft at gmail.com>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11 Aug 2012 13:03, "Martyn
>>> Hill"
>>> <martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:martyn.joseph.hill at gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>> (...)
>>>
>>> My FreeBSD 8 appears to be
>>> running/linking against
>>> libusb20 - the
>>> 'new'
>>> one...
>>>
>>> We killed the old one a long
>>> time ago ;)
>>>
>>> not sure of what you exactly mean here!
>>> libusb 0.1 is still avail in FBSD 9:
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=libusb&stype=all
>>>
>>> Update: while reading the comment on
>>> libusb1.0 website [1], I now
>>> understand why you're using "2.0"!
>>>
>>> "FreeBSD 8 and above include a
>>> FreeBSD-specific reimplementation of the
>>> libusb-1.0 API, so your applications
>>> will probably work there too. The
>>> source code for this library can be
>>> found:
>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libusb/"
>>>
>>> but still, your "killing" comment
>>> leave me in a doubtful state ;)
>>>
>>> Oops, haha, sorry, that's right; we
>>> didn't kill it, just switched
>>> default, and loads of ports needed
>>> modification over it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Do we know how to 'use' the legacy libusb
>>> 0.1 in FreeBSD?
>>>
>>> As Arnaud pointed out, they're still there;
>>> including usb.h uses the
>>> libusb 0.1 compat layer.
>>>
>>>
>>> So, does that mean I would need to recompile nut,
>>> but link it against libusb
>>> 0.1 compat layer?
>>>
>>> If so, how would I go about that?
>>>
>>> My understanding is that you shouldn't need to be
>>> concerned with
>>> that-- NUT uses libusb-0.1, which is emulated in FreeBSD
>>> with
>>> libusb20. Thus changing the version to link with makes
>>> no sense.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>> OK, so back to square one... I guess testing the UPS on a
>>> currently supported is the next most sensible step, then -
>>> at least to determine if the driver really works with the
>>> Zigor...
>>>
>>>
>>> the good is that it's a HID device, as you've guessed, supported
>>> by usbhid-ups.
>>> though the device has a bad/buggy implementation:
>>> - vendorid/productid,
>>> - and the main "UPS", coded as 00860004 instead of 00840004.
>>> I'll have to create a fix for this one.
>>
>> I patched your drivers/libhid.c and recompiled, which atleast
>> allowed the incorrect code to be recognised as 'UPS'. Obviously,
>> not enough to get things working...
>>
>>
>>>
>>> the bad news is the I/O errors: until it's fixed, we're stuck!
>>> you should still be able to force compilation/link against the
>>> actual libusb 0.1 (ie not 2.0 compat), and should really do it.
>>
>> Can't figure out how to do this and, in the light of Chris's
>> comments previously, not sure it's supposed to be necessary...
>>
>>> a 2nd thing to check is uhid. iirc, you should either unload it
>>> or blacklist the dev or something like that...
>>
>> I recompiled my FreeBSD kernel without uhid.ko and can
>> succesfully load/unload uhid as a module now.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Arno
>>>
>>
>> So, stalled for now, until I can figure how to link against
>> libusb01 on FreeBSD... Not giving up hope yet, but no amount of
>> googling is shinng a light on this point. :-(
>>
>> Thanks for your help thus far.
>>
>>
>> send in your configure log and config.log (compressed) to see what
>> gets detected at compile time.
>
> config.log <sent direct>... Not sure what you mean by my 'configure
> log' that is distinct from config.log - could you please clarify?
>
>
>> I'd also like to see the output of 'pkg-config --list-all',
>
> <sent direct>...
>
>> and still the ldd output (you never sent it iirc)
>>
> Oh yes - ldd against blazer_usb:
>
> KRISHNA# ldd /usr/local/libexec/nut/blazer_usb
> /usr/local/libexec/nut/blazer_usb:
> libusb.so.2 => /usr/lib/libusb.so.2 (0x2809a000)
> libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x280a8000)
> libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x280c2000)
> libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x280d7000)
>
> and usbhid-ups:
>
> KRISHNA# ldd /usr/local/libexec/nut/usbhid-ups
> /usr/local/libexec/nut/usbhid-ups:
> libusb.so.2 => /usr/lib/libusb.so.2 (0x280a2000)
> libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x280b0000)
> libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x280c5000)
>
> Is that what you needed?
>
>> cheers,
>> Arno
>>
> Thanks again for your time...
>
> M.
>
> --
> "There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't."
--
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