From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 9: 9:20 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 2E86F37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:09:18 -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 7071D43E6E for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:09:16 -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 g6PGEcmA002198 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:14:40 +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: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:14:38 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <200207252315.52913.katinka@magestower.com> <200207252326.22037.katinka@magestower.com> <20020725155453.GF68693@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020725155453.GF68693@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207260014.38882.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 23:54, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. Yeap that was what I read, did not know if we had a patched version, DAMN it looks like I may have to engineer a USB to Serial port and protocol convertor and make it emulate a Serial UPS :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