From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 8:54:59 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 ED2E337B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57EA743E42 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:54:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6PFssLu043297; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:54:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:54:54 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Katinka Mills Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: MGE USB UPS support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020725155453.GF68693@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200207252315.52913.katinka@magestower.com> <200207252326.22037.katinka@magestower.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207252326.22037.katinka@magestower.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 In the last episode (Jul 25), Katinka Mills said: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:15, Katinka Mills wrote: > > 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) According to the website, the hidups driver is Linux only. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message