From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 8:21: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C5C37B401 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wskatinka.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org (CPE-144-137-243-7.wa.bigpond.net.au [144.137.243.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B45C343E72 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from katinka@magestower.com) Received: from wskatinka.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org (localhost.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by wskatinka.kaqelectronics.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6PFQMmA002004 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:26:22 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from katinka@magestower.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Katinka Mills To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: MGE USB UPS support in FreeBSD Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:26:22 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <200207252315.52913.katinka@magestower.com> In-Reply-To: <200207252315.52913.katinka@magestower.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207252326.22037.katinka@magestower.com> 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 Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:15, Katinka Mills wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a customer who has one of the new MGE UPS's with USB interface, and > I need it to shutdown FreeBSD on power fail (the UPS was bought with the > server as it was to originally be win2k Server, but I converted the > customer to FreeBSD) What can I do, I have put a question up on the USB-BSD > list and have had no replies in 4 days, and the customer is getting toe, > they want to decomission an old P2 server running NT4. One other thing I ment to add (hit send to quick) is that I have looked at nut, and it says it supports this UPS with the HIDUPS driver in linux, although it is experimental, is this safe to use in FreeBSD (I have done a tonne of work on this system and would hate to crash it this late in the game ;o) Regards, Kat. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K.A.Q. Electronics Software and Electronic Engineering Perth, Western Australia Phone +61 (0) 419 923 731 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message