Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:16:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Katinka Mills <katinka@magestower.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MGE USB UPS support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020725161633.GH68693@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200207260014.38882.katinka@magestower.com> References: <200207252315.52913.katinka@magestower.com> <200207252326.22037.katinka@magestower.com> <20020725155453.GF68693@dan.emsphone.com> <200207260014.38882.katinka@magestower.com>
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In the last episode (Jul 26), Katinka Mills said: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:54, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jul 25), Katinka Mills said: > > > One other thing I ment to add (hit send to quick) is that I have > > > looked at nut, and it says it supports this UPS with the HIDUPS > > > driver in linux, although it is experimental, is this safe to use > > > in FreeBSD (I have done a tonne of work on this system and would > > > hate to crash it this late in the game > > > ;o) > > > > According to the website, the hidups driver is Linux only. > > Yeap that was what I read, did not know if we had a patched version, > DAMN it looks like I may have to engineer a USB to Serial port and > protocol convertor and make it emulate a Serial UPS :o( That may not work. "usbhid" sounds like it's a USB HID (Human Interface Device), which means that it's not using a serial protocol at all. If you're a programmer, take a look at the "uhid" manpage on FreeBSD, and see if the ioctls listed there map to what the Linux ushbid code is using. Who knows; it might be an easy port. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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