Re: USB support for UPSes

[François Chambaud <francois.chambaud@free.fr>]

On Thursday, 12 February 2004 at 15:35:38 -0500, Damian Gerow wrote:
> Having spent the past few days between nut/apcupsd/upsd/apc-upsd, Google,
> and various other tidbits of documentation, I've come up empty.  It appears
> as though no UPS monitoring software supports a USB cable under OpenBSD?
> Can anyone confirm/deny this?  I'd like to be able to monitor my UPS, but
> I'm stuck with a USB cable.
> 
> FWIW, OBSD picks up the UPS no problem.
> 
> 

Here is an e-mail I've received after asking for the support of
USB in apcupsd for OpenBSD :

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:51:31 -0500
From: "Adam Kropelin" <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>
To: François Chambaud <francois.chambaud@free.fr>,
        <apcupsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Apcupsd-users] no usb driver after ./configure
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158

François Chambaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to compile with the usb-driver, but the result is no-usb on the
> drivers line. Here is the end of the log :
>
> $ sudo ./configure --enable-usb --with-upstype=usb --with-upscable=usb
>
> <snip>
>
> Configuration on Thu Jan 29 22:36:48 CET 2004:
>
>   Host:                       i386-unknown-openbsd3.4 -- openbsd 3.4
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^

Linux is the only platform supported by the USB driver currently.

Adam



I've buy an Back-UPS CS 500 and I wait now that APC send me the free
serial cable ordered on the web.


François
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