On 2006/05/31 11:12, Claus wrote:
> On 5/31/2006 5:43 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> >On 2006/05/31 08:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>As far as I understand I need either the hidups or the newhidups
> >>driver of nut in order to use the APC Back-UPS XS 1500 (aka BX1500)
> >>with a USB interface cable. [...] Are the hidups and newhidups
> >>only available under Linux?
> >Not tested, but NUT is probably looking for /usr/local/include/usb.h
> >from the libusb port/package, not the system /usr/include/dev/usb/usb.h
> >Programs using libusb should be reasonably portable between OS.
>
> Thanks Stuart. You are right, the libusb-0.1.10ap1 package contains
> the needed /usr/local/include/usb.h file. I got it all compiled now
Good stuff, and thanks for the useful and detailed information
you included.
> but I'm already stuck again.
> The newhidups driver doesn't detect the UPS. I read somewhere [1]
> that the uhid device needed to be disabled in order to get the driver
> to run in FreeBSD. Apcupsd specifically requires that from OpenBSD
> [2]. Does that really mean that a custom build of OpenBSD is required?
Well, it needs a change making to the OS, but I don't see any
reason for it to be a custom build, it seems like it's quite
suitable to go into the standard OS.
> uhidev0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0
> uhidev0: American Power Conversion Back-UPS RS 1500 FW:8.g2 .D USB FW:g2, rev
> 1.10/1.06, addr 2, iclass
> 3/0
> uhidev0: 123 report ids
> uhid0 at uhidev0 reportid 1: input=0, output=0, feature=1
Fortunately matthieu@ recently made it easy to work with this
when he made changes to uhid to accommodate the metageek wi-spy. [1]
Please try this 1-line change and rebuild the kernel (just GENERIC,
you don't need anything custom);
Index: /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /data/cvsroot/OpenBSD/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.c,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -r1.22 usb_quirks.c
--- /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.c 14 May 2006 12:00:04 -0000 1.22
+++ /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.c 31 May 2006 17:33:07 -0000
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@
{ USB_VENDOR_NEC, USB_PRODUCT_NEC_PICTY920, ANY, { UQ_BROKEN_BIDIR }},
{ USB_VENDOR_NEC, USB_PRODUCT_NEC_PICTY800, ANY, { UQ_BROKEN_BIDIR }},
{ USB_VENDOR_METAGEEK, USB_PRODUCT_METAGEEK_WISPY, ANY, { UQ_BAD_HID }},
+ { USB_VENDOR_APC, USB_PRODUCT_APC_UPSPRO500, ANY, { UQ_BAD_HID }},
{ 0, 0, 0, { 0 } }
};
This should prevent the UPS attaching to uhid, instead it should
show as ugen in dmesg and be available for apcupsd.
[1] (One can see why the wi-spy attaches to uhid since the board
is intended for wireless remote keyboard/mouse but someone worked
out how to make better use of it - but why this UPS, and the
cypress usb-serial, report themselves as being HID is less clear..)
