Nut upsdev - May 2008 - REGRESSION: New "megatec" driver does't work for UPS that was managed by old fentonups driver

Hi there,

A couple years ago, I had patched the "fentonups" nut driver to allow
it to
work with my Unitek Alpha 500 UPS.

My patch had been accepted and incorporated in the standard fentonups driver.

I have had no time to stay involved in the "nut" project since (and
besides
this I'm not a developper...).

2 days ago I upgraded from Ubuntu Gutsy to Ubuntu Hardy and got a new
"nut"
package with the distro upgrade (Version: 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu7) and discovered 
that the fentonups driver had disappeared.

I trie to use the new "megatec" driver to no avail :

# /sbin/upsdrvctl -DDD start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.1-
Starting UPS: Alpha
exec: /lib/nut/megatec -a Alpha
Network UPS Tools 2.2.1- - Megatec protocol driver 1.5.13 [megatec]
Carlos Rodrigues (c) 2003-2007

Megatec protocol UPS not detected.
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)


If I manually copy "my" old fentonups driver and use my old ups.conf,
I can
get :

# /sbin/upsdrvctl -DDD start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.1-
Starting UPS: Alpha
exec: /lib/nut/fentonups -a Alpha
Network UPS Tools - Fenton UPS driver 1.22 (2.0.5)
This driver is obsolete and has been replaced by the "megatec" driver.
It will
be removed somewhere in the near future.
Detected Alpha 500 iC on /dev/ttyS0

...So it can more or less still work.


But if I try to use it with upsd, I get an error message :
totor fentonups[11666]: Startup successful
totor upsd[11667]: listening on 0.0.0.0 port 3493
totor upsd[11667]: Can't connect to UPS [Alpha] (fentonups-Alpha): No such 
file or directory
totor upsd[11668]: Startup successful

...Don't know if this "No such file..." has something to do with
the old
driver being incompatible with the new structure, or /me missing something in 
doing the upgrade, but I'd love to get my UPS back :-\ (and I'd love it
to
stay supported by the current and future nut versions)

Any help appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.

-- 
Michel Bouissou <michel at bouissou.net> OpenPGP ID 0xEB04D09C
-- 
Michel Bouissou <michel at bouissou.net> OpenPGP ID 0xEB04D09C

Ce que j'avais sous les yeux, c'?tait une repr?sentation th??trale
du chaos total, une d?finition fonctionnelle du concept de confusion,
une danse d?sordonn?e ? la gloire de la violence sinistre.
C'?tait la guerre.
	-- Dan Simmons, "Les Cantos d'Hyp?rion" (Trad. Guy Abadia)

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Michel Bouissou <michel at bouissou.net>
wrote:
> I trie to use the new "megatec" driver to no avail :
>
> # /sbin/upsdrvctl -DDD start
> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.1-
> Starting UPS: Alpha
> exec: /lib/nut/megatec -a Alpha
> Network UPS Tools 2.2.1- - Megatec protocol driver 1.5.13 [megatec]
> Carlos Rodrigues (c) 2003-2007
>
> Megatec protocol UPS not detected.
> Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
Can you post the output of "megatec -DDD -a yourups" ?

-- 
Carlos Rodrigues