From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 6 01:33:19 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 15F4E16A403 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 01:33:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@mail.gbch.net) Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 141C943D49 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 01:33:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@mail.gbch.net) Received: (qmail 56410 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2006 11:33:14 +1000 Received: from iliad.gbch.net (172.16.1.9) by gw.gbch.net with SMTP; 6 Oct 2006 11:33:14 +1000 Received: (qmail 55123 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Oct 2006 11:33:13 +1000 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:33:13 +1000 From: Greg Black 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> <20061006000956.GC2473@FS.denninger.net> <20061006002234.GC82687@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061006002234.GC82687@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i; gjb-muttsend.sh 1.7 2004-10-05 X-Uptime: 2 days X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Blog: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/blog/ X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-Request-PGP: http://www.gbch.net/keys/4B04B7D6.asc 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: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:33:19 -0000 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