Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

[Brooks Davis]

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.

-- Brooks
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