From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 16:15:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B41CC1065671; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:15:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F188FC1C; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:15:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8A9104A74; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:56:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:56:11 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: Vq8XVgQS7zA+k9G/tCFlnl9nWlgJlYrHDXRl0NXZlbK8 1209570970 Received: from hagrid.ewd.goldmark.org (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AEB9125188; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:56:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: From: Jeffrey Goldberg To: Mike Stammer In-Reply-To: <2a2e30e80804300831r78f6a3a2j634f94877d75a32@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:56:09 -0500 References: <2a2e30e80804300831r78f6a3a2j634f94877d75a32@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, itetcu@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd port: apcupsd-3.14.3_1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:15:59 -0000 On Apr 30, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Mike Stammer wrote: > Last night i installed apcupsd and there was a post install message > mentioning to comment out the following in the kernel: > > device uhid # "Human Interface Devices" > > i do not think this is necessary anymore as I, in the process of > determining my first UPS was bad, tried a kernel both with and without > the line above commented out. Are you connecting to the UPS by USB or by old-fashioned serial (RS-232)? I suspect that that message would only apply for RS-232 connections. But that is just a guess on my part. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/