From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 3 19:16:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DDA514CEF for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:16:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max11-15.gbis.net [216.82.159.15]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA26446; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:16:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA00484; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:16:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <01e701bf5662$09ea5880$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Scott I. Remick" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: Which cable for APC SmartUPS? Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:16:04 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I just discovered from APC that there is not just one data cable for their >> UPSes, but several, each OS-specific. Now, they don't have a version of >> THEIR software for FreeBSD... I knew this... but which OS cable do I order >> for the software out there for FreeBSD to work? >I just got my UPS (APC smart UPS) on friday (just in time) and the black >cable that came with it works fine. I am using upsd from ports. The cable that came with my SmartUPS 600 also works fine. I had trouble getting upsd to work, but upsmon works great (even had a *real* power failure to test it, worked like a charm!) >Ask for the 'black cable'. Good one :-) --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message