USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 12 January 2010 9:29:58 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Frank wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > > Does it use libusb? If so, then it should "Just Work" assuming that
> > > permissions are correct (note the nodes are /dev/usb/X.Y.Z now)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> > > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> > > "The nice thing about standards is that there
> > > are so many of them to choose from."
> > >  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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> >
> > I don't know if it uses libusb.  The makefile has the following:
> >
> > .if defined(WITH_USB) && ${OSVERSION} >= 800069
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --with-generic-usb
> > .endif
> >
> > Does this tell you?
> 
> No, I checked the code, it doesn't use libusb :(
> 
> I guess it will need to be ported manually, I have no idea how difficult 
> that would be though.

No, apcupsd works perfectly fine on 8.  I use it on a server that has run 6.x, 
7.x, and now 8.0.

-- 
John Baldwin