From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 4 23:54:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F14637B417 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 23:54:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 877C9B3; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 22:54:12 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Mike Tancsa , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB UPS ? Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 22:54:12 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011204210046.034bcde0@192.168.0.12> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011204210046.034bcde0@192.168.0.12> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011205075412.877C9B3@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 04 December 2001 05:04 pm, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Has anyone been able to use the APC USB interface on FreeBSD ? The device > shows up in dmesg > > uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > uhid0: American Power Conversion Back-UPS Office 500 FW: 4.1.D USB FW: d1, > rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/0 > > # usbdevs > addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel > addr 2: Back-UPS Office 500 FW: 4.1.D USB FW: d1, American Power > Conversion > > Questions is, how do I "talk" to the device ? > > ---Mike I never finished trying to get mine working, but it's my understanding that it will work with a serial cable available from APC. Even though it's not supported in FreeBSD one of the APC techs told me it will work. I just don't have an extra 35 bucks for the cable right now. Beech -- Micro$oft: "Where can we make you go today?" ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message