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Date:      Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:36:21 -0500
From:      Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?
Message-ID:  <45257AD5.5060205@palisadesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061005210447.GA82687@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
References:  <20061005151925.GA1156@FS.denninger.net>	<20061005190822.GA15547@icarus.home.lan>	<20061005202144.GA11105@FS.denninger.net> <20061005210447.GA82687@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>

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Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:21:44PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
>   
>> FreeBSD's USB support has always been somewhat deficient.  For example,
>> apcupsd can't talk to their UPSs over the USB bus, even though the software
>> itself knows how, because FreeBSD doesn't know what a UPS is and throws up
>> its hands when you plug it in.
>>     
>
> This is false for at least the APC SmartUPS the machine I'm sending this
> from is connected to.  I wouldn't be suprised if it was true once, but
> it isn't today.
>
> ugen0: American Power Conversion Smart-UPS 750 FW:651.12.D USB FW:4.2, rev 1.10/0.06, addr 2
>   
The uhid driver used to grab the APC USB device, but I think someone 
added a quirk in 6.1 to stop it so the ugen driver would get it instead.

Guy

-- 
Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
Chief System Architect
Palisade Systems, Inc.




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