<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-03-11 4:55 GMT+01:00 Spike <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:spike@drba.org">spike@drba.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Hi,</div></blockquote><div> <br>Hi Spike,<br><br></div><div>sorry for the lag in answering, I was collecting the needed information.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>I have a eaton 1500 that connects to an Ubuntu Xenial box via USB. The UPS works, however exactly *ever 5 minutes* it disconnects and reconnects and I see this in syslog:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Mar 10 19:50:32 spike kernel: usb 4-5: USB disconnect, device number 103</div><div>Mar 10 19:50:33 spike kernel: usb 4-5: new low-speed USB device number 104 using ohci-pci</div><div>Mar 10 19:50:34 spike kernel: usb 4-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0463, idProduct=ffff</div><div>Mar 10 19:50:34 spike kernel: usb 4-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=4</div><div>Mar 10 19:50:34 spike kernel: usb 4-5: Product: Ellipse PRO</div><div>Mar 10 19:50:34 spike kernel: usb 4-5: Manufacturer: EATON</div><div>Mar 10 19:50:34 spike kernel: usb 4-5: SerialNumber: P344G46HW9</div><div>Mar 10 19:50:38 spike kernel: hid-generic 0003:0463:FFFF.1221: hiddev0,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Device [EATON Ellipse PRO] on usb-0000:00:12.0-5/input0</div></div><div><br></div><div>does anybody have any clue why that's happening? besides spamming the logs I'm afraid that it may not reconnect at some point and/or fail when it's actually needed.</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">this is a workaround implemented to avoid, under some specific conditions, a freeze of the USB communication.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As far as I've been told, when there is an actual SW communication (such as with NUT) with requests and replies in the 5mn timeframe, this should not occur.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Could you please:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- confirm back that there is indeed a SW communication setup (NUT or UPower for example),<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- send me back the upsc output for this unit, including the serial number and firmware revision<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">thanks and regards,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Arno<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Eaton Data Center Automation Solutions - Opensource Leader - <a target="_blank" href="http://42ity.org">http://42ity.org</a><br>NUT (Network UPS Tools) Project Leader - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkupstools.org">http://www.networkupstools.org</a><br>Debian Developer - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.debian.org">http://www.debian.org</a><br>Free Software Developer - <a target="_blank" href="http://arnaud.quette.fr">http://arnaud.quette.fr</a><br></div>
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