From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 21:36:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3F416A40F for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 21:36:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from magellan.palisadesys.com (magellan.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B52A43D4C for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 21:36:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from [172.16.2.242] (cetus.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by magellan.palisadesys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k95LaLPH047191 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:36:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Message-ID: <45257AD5.5060205@palisadesys.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:36:21 -0500 From: Guy Helmer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis References: <20061005151925.GA1156@FS.denninger.net> <20061005190822.GA15547@icarus.home.lan> <20061005202144.GA11105@FS.denninger.net> <20061005210447.GA82687@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20061005210447.GA82687@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> X-Palisade-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Palisade-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Palisade-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.024, required 6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60, HTML_30_40 0.37, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00) X-Palisade-MailScanner-From: ghelmer@palisadesys.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:36:29 -0000 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.