Subject: Re: SUCCESS ! Re: Installing a UPS for a NetBSD server... software
To: Gilles Gravier <Gilles@Gravier.org>
From: Asmodehn Shade <asmodehn@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/27/2007 01:05:37
Thanks a lot ! I was able to make it work ;)... Well it seems I still have =
to make the power down test... finger crossed ;)

Thanks again !

I dont think I will bother with upsnut, since it has been already a hassle =
to set this up, and I mgiht not need it that much ;)

Later ;)


On Sat, 26 May 2007 10:12:11 +0200
Gilles Gravier <Gilles@Gravier.org> wrote:

> The problem with the master/slave code I also got. I had to tweak my=20
> apcupsd.conf... The result is the attached one, which works. You should=20
> be able to use it more or less as is.
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> Gilles.
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> Asmodehn Shade wrote:
> > Hi Gilles and netbsd folks ;)
> >
> > Well I guess I am trying to do the smae than you are... Here is where I=
 am at, trying to make my APC BackUPS RS 1000 to work with either apcupsd o=
r ups-nut :
> > - apcupsd : detected fine, but got the error as well about the master/s=
lave code disabled. A bit annoying as I will have another machine on the sm=
ae UPS. It seems also that this prevents the daemon to run. ps -aux | grep =
apcupsd returns nothing...
> > - ups-nut and ups-nut-usb : driver =3D newhidups -> which port to use ?
> >
> > Did you make any progress on your side since then ?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help,
> >
> > --
> > Asmodehn
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:02:38 +0200
> > Gilles Gravier <Gilles@Gravier.org> wrote:
> >
> >  =20
> >> Wooooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo!
> >>
> >> OK. I got ugen0 detection once I removed all the uhidev stuff from my=
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> >> kernel configuration file. When I had uhidev present, the UPS would=20
> >> always be detected as uhidev not ugen.
> >>
> >> Then, with that, I set USBTYPE and CABLE to usb for apcupsd.conf ... a=
nd=20
> >> it WORKS! :)
> >>
> >> OK... So building a kernel wasn't too hard. :)
> >>
> >> Now... anybody can tell me how to get nut-ups to work with the same?=20
> >> Seems that nut-ups uses driver hidups (so should I get back to having =
my=20
> >> UPS detected as uhidev?)... but what port to use?
> >>
> >> I get :
> >>
> >>     bash-3.2# upsd -D -D -f
> >>     Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.4
> >>     Can't connect to UPS [apc] (hidups-usb): No such file or directory
> >>     Synchronizing........ giving up
> >>
> >>
> >> Not looking good.
> >>
> >> Gilles
> >>
> >> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >>    =20
> >>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:27:33 +0200
> >>> Gilles Gravier <Gilles@Gravier.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  =20
> >>>      =20
> >>>> Steve,
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you help me there? How do you use that specific line? In what?
> >>>>
> >>>>    =20
> >>>>        =20
> >>> That goes in a kernel config file, for any system 4.0beta or later.
> >>> (That describes all of my machines -- I upgraded the last one
> >>> yesterday to let it talk to at UPS.)  You then build a custom kernel
> >>> according to the instructions in the NetBSD guide.
> >>>
> >>> Here's my config file on that machine:
> >>>
> >>>   include "arch/i386/conf/GENERIC"
> >>>
> >>>   options         SHMMAXPGS=3D32768 # 2048 pages is the default
> >>>   options         IPSEC           # IP security
> >>>   options         IPSEC_ESP       # IP security (encryption part; def=
ine w/IPSEC)
> >>>   options         PCKBD_LAYOUT=3D"(KB_US | KB_SWAPCTRLCAPS)"
> >>>   options         HZ=3D1000
> >>>
> >>>   ugen*   at uhub? port ? vendor "0x051d" flags 1
> >>>
> >>> Note the 'include' line -- it saves a lot of trouble if you're willing
> >>> to accept all of the unnecessary drivers in GENERIC.  (I am -- trimmi=
ng
> >>> it down would save me very little memory, as such things go.)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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> >>>      =20
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