Subject: Re: Network UPS Tools: please test USB and SNMP drivers
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 08/22/2006 23:24:39
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:17:21PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> usb worked more or less for me, for ups-nut-2.0.3 (I don't know if pkgsrc
> has something newer now), but required the attached kernel patch. But I
> has frequent issues where the driver would stop talking to the UPS,
> requiring a reboot of the box (a restart of the daemon didn't fix it), so
> I gave up and got a usb/serial dongle.

pkgsrc has 2.0.4 now but that will probably not fix your issue.  Regardless
I will leave the package there for the benefit of other platforms.  I also
think serial will be more reliable anyway.

Thanks for testing,

	Geert