Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Oct 5 21:04:53 UTC 2006


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

-- Brooks
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