[Bulk] Re: USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Ian Smith wrote:
>  > Notice that we have not specified a device. In doing so, apcupsd
>  > will try all the well known USB ports.
>  >
>  > > > I don't understand why usbdevs can't find any controllers and
>  > > > apcupsd can't find any device while the kernel and usbconfig
>  > > > can find it all.
>  > >
>  > > upsdevs: probably obsolete.  As for apcupsd, I don't think it
>  > > can auto-scan for USB devices, but haven't used it with USB.
>  >
>  > See above.
>
> Frank, have you actually tried specifying DEVICE /dev/ugen0.2 ?
>
> Maybe that port syntax is not 'well known' to apcupsd?  Just a punt.

Does apcupsd change user? If so, does that user have permissions to 
access the USB device nodes?

You might want to try sysutils/nut, that should work with an APC USB 
UPS.

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