On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:33:13AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > On 2006-10-05, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:09:56PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 04:04:47PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:21:44PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > > > > > > > > > > FreeBSD's USB support has always been somewhat deficient. For > > > > > example, > > > > > apcupsd can't talk to their UPSs over the USB bus, even though the > > > > > software > > > > > itself knows how, because FreeBSD doesn't know what a UPS is and > > > > > throws up > > > > > its hands when you plug it in. > > > > > > > > This is false for at least the APC SmartUPS the machine I'm sending this > > > > from is connected to. I wouldn't be suprised if it was true once, but > > > > it isn't today. > > > > > > > > ugen0: American Power Conversion Smart-UPS 750 FW:651.12.D USB FW:4.2, > > > > rev 1.10/0.06, addr 2 > > > > > > Does apcupsd connect to it? I tried this back on 5.x and it failed > > > miserably. It identified the unit, but wouldn't talk to it. > > > > Yes. I get notifications of power failures and can query status. > > I don't know what you guys are doing right, but it doesn't work > right for me on > > $ uname -srm > FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE amd64 > > I do get some results: this is the console when it's connected: > > ugen1: American Power Conversion Smart-UPS 750 FW:651.12.I USB FW:7.3, > rev 1.10/0.06, addr 6 > > I find that apcaccess gives much less info from the USB port > than it does from the RS232 port (on the same hardware) and > apctest (which I want to use to set eprom values) doesn't work > at all. This is very irritating, as I'd like to use my only > serial port for a remote console. > > For now, I've gone back to using the serial port. But I'd love > the USB to work fully.
I don't seem to need the other features. This is not a FreeBSD issue since FreeBSD just knows enough to not try to do anything to the device, it's an apcupsd issue or possibly a weakness in APCs USB implementation. -- Brooks
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