Congratulations!

Gilles.

Asmodehn Shade wrote:
> 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 
>> apcupsd.conf... The result is the attached one, which works. You should 
>> be able to use it more or less as is.
>>
>> Look in particular at the end section of the file... for network 
>> configuration.
>>
>> Gilles.
>>
>> 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 or ups-nut :
>>> - apcupsd : detected fine, but got the error as well about the master/slave code disabled. A bit annoying as I will have another machine on the smae UPS. It seems also that this prevents the daemon to run. ps -aux | grep apcupsd returns nothing...
>>> - ups-nut and ups-nut-usb : driver = 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:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Wooooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo!
>>>>
>>>> OK. I got ugen0 detection once I removed all the uhidev stuff from my 
>>>> kernel configuration file. When I had uhidev present, the UPS would 
>>>> always be detected as uhidev not ugen.
>>>>
>>>> Then, with that, I set USBTYPE and CABLE to usb for apcupsd.conf ... and 
>>>> 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? 
>>>> Seems that nut-ups uses driver hidups (so should I get back to having my 
>>>> 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:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:27:33 +0200
>>>>> Gilles Gravier <Gilles@Gravier.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Steve,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you help me there? How do you use that specific line? In what?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> 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=32768 # 2048 pages is the default
>>>>>   options         IPSEC           # IP security
>>>>>   options         IPSEC_ESP       # IP security (encryption part; define w/IPSEC)
>>>>>   options         PCKBD_LAYOUT="(KB_US | KB_SWAPCTRLCAPS)"
>>>>>   options         HZ=1000
>>>>>
>>>>>   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 -- trimming
>>>>> it down would save me very little memory, as such things go.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
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