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On Jul 13, 2015, at 11:00 PM, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Okay. I went through the pages from Roger Price and have set up enough, I
think that I
> should at least get an 'OL' response when I run 'upsdrvctl
start' . Instead I get this:
> [CODE]
> root at debian:/home/john# upsdrvctl start
> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.2
> Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.38 (2.7.2)
> USB communication driver 0.32
> No matching HID UPS found
> Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
> [CODE]
>
> Is this because there is no specific driver for my UPS ? I am totally
perplexed.
No, it says that the HID driver did not match your UPS. The list archives
mention that the blazer_usb (and now nutdrv-qx) drivers work with some models
that use WinPower, but this is not guaranteed (WinPower may have been extended
since then). What does "lsusb" show?
> John
>
> "Science is organized common sense. Philosophy is organized
piffle"
> -attributed to Bertrand Russel
>
> From: Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>
> To: john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org" <nut-upsdev at
lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 7:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsdev] Totally beyond me
>
> On Jul 13, 2015, at 7:59 PM, john hart <jsamcr at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > When I ran upsdrvctl start I got a message about the usbhid-ups
driver. It appears that NUT
> > is not configured with the driver.
>
> What is the exact message?
>
> The "nut" package in Debian depends on both
"nut-client" and "nut-server", and the USB drivers are in
nut-server. (There are other packages for the less common drivers.)
>
> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/i386/nut-server/filelist
>
> > The instructions in the man page is all greek to me.
>
> As you may be aware, most man pages are reference material. However, in the
"See Also" section at the end of most (if not all) of the NUT man
pages, it mentions the NUT website. The documentation for installing the
packages is online, as well as in the "nut-doc" package:
http://www.networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/ar01s05.html#Installing_packages
>
> There is also this document by Roger Price:
<http://rogerprice.org/NUT.html>. While it is written with openSUSE in
mind, the Debian version would not be that different. Configuration files are
stored in /etc/nut rather than /etc/ups, and you determine the Debian paths of
other files by searching the package database for the last part of the path,
e.g.:
>
> $ dpkg --search usbhid-ups
> nut-server: /lib/nut/usbhid-ups
> nut-server: /usr/share/man/man8/usbhid-ups.8.gz
>
>
>
>
> > As I said before, I am not a programmer. I suspect that NUT might
need to be compiled with that driver, but I really don't know. Any
instructions would have to be written so that ANYBODY could follow them, not
just programmers.
>
>
> Writing good software documentation involves having non-programmers work
with programmers to identify the parts that non-programmers shouldn't need
to know. It would be great if you could let us know where we should put extra
pointers to the documentation that we have.
>
> --
> Charles Lepple
> clepple at gmail
>
>
>
>
>
--
Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail
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