Nut upsuser - Aug 2005 - problem with an MGE Ellipse 650 (Debian Sarge)

I've recently bought an MGE 650 that has both cables : USB and Serial.

Since it's used on a server, I'd prefer not to load usb drivers just for
nut. The problem is, either with newhidups or with mge-shut, the driver 
instantanly report that the communication with my MGE is lost, and 
shotly after that my ups is unavailable.

It never show up again, and nut constantly says that the ups is 
unavailable.

I've changed the DEADTIME / MAXLIFE and such settings, but it didn't 
changed a thing. I can provide more details about the host if needed.


and please Cc: me, I'm not on the list.


Cheers,
-- 
?O?  Pierre Habouzit
??O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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Hi Pierre,

first, it's strange that you didn't report this either through the
BTS or directly to MGE as we're Debian Partner...
> I've recently bought an MGE 650 that has both cables : USB and Serial.
>
> Since it's used on a server, I'd prefer not to load usb drivers
just for
> nut. The problem is, either with newhidups or with mge-shut, the driver
> instantanly report that the communication with my MGE is lost, and
> shotly after that my ups is unavailable.
>
> It never show up again, and nut constantly says that the ups is
> unavailable.
>
> I've changed the DEADTIME / MAXLIFE and such settings, but it
didn't
> changed a thing. I can provide more details about the host if needed.
did you configured /etc/default/nut to both "yes"?
what happends if you launch "mge-shut -DDDDD -a <your_ups>"?
Before doing the above, stop nut and verify the driver is stopped too.
Also check the /etc/nut?* files privileges as per the
/usr/share/doc/nut/README.Debian.gz

This shouldn't be a hard problem to solve.
> and please Cc: me, I'm not on the list.
done

see you,
Arnaud Quette
---
Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D Dpt
OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/
 ... and much more ...