"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> Do any of the UPS packages support UPS yet?  My local power company has 
> been in a bad mood for the last week or two -- right now, I'm using the 
> last of my UPS power to send this note...  (I have enough NetBSD 
> machines on UPSs that I'd like to be able to do orderly shutdowns.)

apcupsd supports my apc usb ups.  (What a tongue, er, finger twister!)

One caveat, VIA usb bugs required me to buy a NEC-chip based usb card
to keep the daemon and/or kernel from locking up.  (Unplugging the USB
would usually clear the via-usb wedge unless three lemons came up in
some internal counter.  In that case it would panic the kernel.)
   
$ apcaccess 
APC      : 001,034,0851
DATE     : Wed Jul 20 00:17:18 PDT 2005
HOSTNAME : bonnet.wsrcc.com
RELEASE  : 3.11.3
VERSION  : 3.11.3 (12 June 2005) someotherbsd
UPSNAME  : bonnet.wsrcc.com
CABLE    : USB Cable
MODEL    : Back-UPS RS 1500
UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: Tue Jul 19 12:53:56 PDT 2005
STATUS   : ONLINE 
LINEV    : 121.0 Volts
LOADPCT  :  21.0 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT : 167.0 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 30 Percent
MINTIMEL : 10 Minutes
MAXTIME  : 0 Seconds
LOTRANS  : 097.0 Volts
HITRANS  : 132.0 Volts
ALARMDEL : Always
BATTV    : 27.3 Volts
NUMXFERS : 0
TONBATT  : 0 seconds
CUMONBATT: 0 seconds
XOFFBATT : N/A
SELFTEST : NO
STATFLAG : 0x02000008 Status Flag
MANDATE  : 2004-08-10
SERIALNO : JB0433007968  
BATTDATE : 2001-09-25
NOMBATTV :  24.0
FIRMWARE : .g8 .D USB FW:g8 
APCMODEL : Back-UPS RS 1500
END APC  : Wed Jul 20 00:17:20 PDT 2005

Well ok, this is currently plugged into a different bsd, but it runs
bug-for-bug the same way under netbsd.

-wolfgang
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