Nut upsuser - Sep 2005 - PSP, Protection Center 500, NUT 2.0.2 and Gentoo

Hi,

I recently bought a MGE protection center 500.

I am running a gentoo, and I am currently trying to enable the ups
handling by the os, with no success.

First, I compiled and installe nut 2.0.2 (with usb support) and psp
3.0. I made ebuild for them that I will submit soon to
bugs.gentoo.org.

The ups is connected via usb, and lsusb confirms that the device is
detected (cf end of the mail for the lsusb output).


** configuring nut

I created an entry in /etc/nut/ups.conf :

[mge]
        driver = newhidups
        port = auto

Then, running upsdrvctl gives me :

$ upsdrvctl start mge
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.0.2
Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.23 (2.0.2)

No USB/HID UPS found
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)


** Running psp :

- The gui starts, then freeze after a very short moment during which
the buttons highlight when the mouse goes over them.
- Then I have to CTRL-C it twice, then it fails with a segmentation fault.
- psp seems to suppose that the nut configuration is in /etc/ups
(that's what I guessed considering the messages on the console when
/etc/ups was absent), but on gentoo nut configuration is in /etc.nut.


tryo dev # psp

(psp:9425): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type
gtkmm__GtkFixed to a container of type gtkmm__GtkViewport, but the
widget is already inside a container of type gtkmm__GtkViewport, the
GTK+ FAQ at http://www.gtk.org/faq/ explains how to reparent a widget.
/bin/chown: `root:ups': invalid group
Segmentation fault
tryo dev #       



I will now try the latest versions of nut, but I'd like any advice,
especially if some of you are succefully using this ups.

Regards,


Christophe

Forgot the lsusb output :-\

2005/9/11, Christophe de VIENNE
<cdevienne@gmail.com>:
> The ups is connected via usb, and lsusb confirms that the device is
> detected (cf end of the mail for the lsusb output).

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0463:ffff MGE UPS Systems UPS
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               1.10
  bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
  bDeviceSubClass         0
  bDeviceProtocol         0
  bMaxPacketSize0         8
  idVendor           0x0463 MGE UPS Systems
  idProduct          0xffff UPS
  bcdDevice           42.41
  iManufacturer           1 MGE
  iProduct                2 MGE
  iSerial                 4 PRO
  bNumConfigurations      1
Warning: invalid config descriptor
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           34
    bNumInterfaces          1
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0
    bmAttributes         0xa0
      Remote Wakeup
    MaxPower                0mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass         9 Hub
      bInterfaceSubClass      0 Unused
      bInterfaceProtocol      0
      iInterface              0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            3
          Transfer Type            Interrupt
          Synch Type               none
        wMaxPacketSize          2
        bInterval             255
  junk at config descriptor end: 00 00 00 6f 00 6e 00 20 00 55 00 53
00 42 00 20 00 28 00 23 00 32 00 29
  Language IDs: (length=4)
     0409 English(US)

Hi Christophe,
> I recently bought a MGE protection center 500.
>
> I am running a gentoo, and I am currently trying to enable the ups
> handling by the os, with no success.
>
> First, I compiled and installe nut 2.0.2 (with usb support) and psp
> 3.0. I made ebuild for them that I will submit soon to
> bugs.gentoo.org.
there is some work underway for Gentoo and NUT:newhidups/PSP
PSP need some changes to fully support that distribution.

Did you look at these links:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2663684.html
and most of all: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2663684.html

Your problem should be with the hotplug files, located in
nut/scripts/hotplug, that need to be installed for newhidups
to work. There are numerous threads on the upsusers list
on that subject, ie:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2005-August/000108.html
Note that you don't need step (3)

Regards,
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/
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