From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 11:59:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA05101 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:59:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA05090 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:59:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA17984; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:59:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:59:10 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andrew cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sola510 ups - problems compiling In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Andrew wrote: > G'day all > > we've purchases a sola510 ups and unfortunately it doesn't come with > precompiled binaries for FreeBSD. It comes with the source but it doesn't > compile. > > Before I spend a few long nights trying to work out how to fix the code > has anyone else already done this or alternatively if I can convince the > boss to take the bloody things back and get something supported does > anyone know of any ups supported by FreeBSD? UPS support is hazy at best. I don't know of any UPS manufacturer that supplies code or FreeBSD binaries that we can actually fix. I'm in contact with APC and was able to swipe a smart-mode cable from them. I have two programs that report they work with the APC hardware. One, upsmon, came off the 2.2.2 CDROM in xperimnt/. It looks like the PowerChute display from Windows. The second, upsd, is a highly configurable monitor daemon. Once I get the cable I'm going to hack on it. upsd comes from ftp://ftp.ww.com/pub/wildwind/upsd. Its in Russia and is a small machine so connecting can be difficult. If you can get the protocol spec to the Sola it may be possible to hack upsd to support it. Its targeted at smart monitoring and not dumb monitoring, but I might be willing to change that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major