Nut upsdev - Feb 2007 - Re: NUT works with more ActivePower UPSes

Hello Tomasz,

first, thanks for your feedback.
> First of all, I want thank you for excellent NUT software :) It saved my 
ass 
> from BIG pain :)
> 
> I want to confirm that NUT works with ActivePower UPSes (ActivePower is 
Polish 
> company). I have two machines:
> 
> 1st machine: 
>  * mainboard: Asus ATX with Intel Celeron 2.53 GHz,
>  * OS: openSUSE 10.1,
>  * kernel: 2.6.16.21-0.13-default,
>  * UPS: ActivePower 400 connected to /dev/ttyS0, 
>  * NUT: 2.04 (RPM version), 
>  * NUT driver: megatec (mustek works also),
>  * KNutClient 0.9 (RPM version)
> 
> 2nd machine:
>  * mainboard: Tyan Tiger K8S with two AMD Opteron 248 2.2 GHz,
>  * OS: RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0,
>  * kernel: 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp,
>  * UPS: ActivePower 2000 connected to /dev/ttyS0, 
>  * NUT: 2.04 (RPM version),
>  * NUT driver: megatec (mustek works also)
> 
> KNutClient monitors both UPSes and works perfectly. NUT itself works 
perfectly 
> also - shows UPSes states, detects simulated power failures and power 
both 
> systems off. When AC power returns, UPSes run both machines. Everything 
is 
> all right :)
> 
> So, thank you very much one more time. I hope my e-mail help you 
extending 
> working UPSes and drivers list :) If you need more informations, just 
drop me 
> an e-mail ;) In April or May I plan to check if ActivePower 400 works 
with 
> NUT on FreeBSD (and maybe OpenBSD) boxes.
Kudos goes to Carlos Rodrigues, for his excellent work on the megatec 
driver,
and to Daniel Prynych, for his excellent work too on KNutClient.

@Carlos: I've added these 2 models to the drivers.list (both in trunk and 
Testing).

About *BSD support, I'm very confident since the only problem we're
facing
on these systems is USB related... And megatec is a serial driver, though
a megatec_usb driver is under heavy development...

Arnaud
-- 
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