Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:33:13 +1000 From: Greg Black <freebsd@mail.gbch.net> 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: <nospam-1160098393.55122@iliad.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <20061006002234.GC82687@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> <20061006000956.GC2473@FS.denninger.net> <20061006002234.GC82687@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On 2006-10-05, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:09:56PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 04:04:47PM -0500, 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
> >
> > Does apcupsd connect to it? I tried this back on 5.x and it failed
> > miserably. It identified the unit, but wouldn't talk to it.
>
> Yes. I get notifications of power failures and can query status.
I don't know what you guys are doing right, but it doesn't work
right for me on
$ uname -srm
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE amd64
I do get some results: this is the console when it's connected:
ugen1: American Power Conversion Smart-UPS 750 FW:651.12.I USB FW:7.3, rev 1.10/0.06, addr 6
I find that apcaccess gives much less info from the USB port
than it does from the RS232 port (on the same hardware) and
apctest (which I want to use to set eprom values) doesn't work
at all. This is very irritating, as I'd like to use my only
serial port for a remote console.
For now, I've gone back to using the serial port. But I'd love
the USB to work fully.
Greg
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