Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:14:38 +0800 From: Katinka Mills <katinka@magestower.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MGE USB UPS support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <200207260014.38882.katinka@magestower.com> In-Reply-To: <20020725155453.GF68693@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200207252315.52913.katinka@magestower.com> <200207252326.22037.katinka@magestower.com> <20020725155453.GF68693@dan.emsphone.com>
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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
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