Hello,

> Hello, I just recently acquired an APC Smart-UPS 1500VA from a friend,
> and the only cable it came with is the USB cable. The kernel
> recognizes it, but apcupsd's USB driver won't build on NetBSD. Is
> there any way for me to communicate with the UPS short of building one
> of those wonky serial cables for it? Sure, you can talk to the HID's
> with usbhidctl, but that's pretty useless as far as monitoring the
> power goes.

try the ups-nut package from pkgsrc/sysutils, it supports some USB 
UPSes, although I have no idea about yours ( it works well with my 
Belkin universal but I use the RS232 interface )

have fun
Michael