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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