Hi Stefanos, I've forwarded your mail to the nut user mailing list, which is the right place to get support. thanks to subscribe to it (http://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=30602). Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D Dpt Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ ----- R?achemin? par Arnaud QUETTE/FR/EMEA le 05/09/06 11:02 AM ----- Stefanos Sofroniou <ssofroni@cytanet.com.cy> 05/08/06 06:35 PM A arnaud.quette@mgeups.com cc Objet UPSilon 2000 usage Dear Sir, I have recently purchased a MegaTech UPS (UPSilon 2000) and the cd that came with it was including drivers for Operating Systems like Novell, all windows, Linux and FreeBSD. Unfortunatelt the drivers for Linux / FreeBSD are quite old (Linux 2.x and FreeBSD 2.x, 3.x, as also a patch for FreeBSD 4.x) and even though I tried to install them was a total waste of time for me. Nothing was applicable for it. Compat3x is no longer support. I went to FreeBSD channel (IRC) and spoke with few folks and they recommended me NUT. I installed it successfully from ports but right now I am confused. I tried to read the instructions from NUT web page but unfortunately I confused my self more. I have found the samples .conf files that installed with the ports and I created new .conf files so I may use them for my usage and I saw the examples mentioning UPS name...sparky was the example if I am not mistaken. Well...what name shall I give for my UPS? The name of the model which is UPSilon 2000? [UPSilon 2000] or [UPSilon]? Another thing is with serial port devices. In the example you are giving a name for serial port ttyS1 or something similar (for Linux) and as you mentioned for FreeBSD we shall use cuaaN device. Well FreeBSD# ls acd0 ctty lpt0 stderr ttyv6 acd0t01 cuad0 ??? lpt0.ctl stdin ttyv7 acpi cuad0.init mdctl stdout ttyv8 ad0 cuad0.lock mem sysmouse ttyv9 ad0s1 cuad1??? net ttyd0 ttyva ad0s1a cuad1.init net1 ttyd0.init ttyvb ad0s1b cuad1.lock net2 ttyd0.lock ttyvc ad0s1c devctl net3 ttyd1 ttyvd ad0s1d devstat network ttyd1.init ttyve ad0s1e dumpdev nfs4 ttyd1.lock ttyvf ad0s1f fd nfslock ttyp0 urandom agpgart fd0 null ttyp1 usb apm fido pci ttyp2 usb0 ata geom.ctl ppi0 ttyv0 usb1 atkbd0 io psm0 ttyv1 xpt0 bpf0 kbd0 ptyp0 ttyv2 zero bpsm0 klog ptyp1 ttyv3 console kmem ptyp2 ttyv4 consolectl log random ttyv5 these are my devices and I have make bold the possible devices that I could use according your manual. The strange thing is that should be a sioN device somewhere here and there is not. Also the the paradox thing is that I have only one serial port! and here I can see 2 ttydNs. Also I red the handbook for serial printers installations and they use ttydN. What shall I do? You are mentioning to Installation procedure to use cuaaN... Another thing: I really need your help because also the /usr/local/ups/bin/upsdrvctl start does not exist. With dmesg command I can see fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: <Standard parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 pmtimer0 on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> What is going on here? :))))) I have only one serial port (COM 1 I guess). I need to know what device shall I use. Also my UPS is an "online" model because i have problem with my cables at home (we are renting it) and this problem manage to burn me three times my TFT power supply. Fortunately was into the warranty, I replaced my screen and my power problem solved with the usage of UPS because it has also stabilizer. I have to be very careful with the tests that I must try. So please help me with this only, not to tell me step by step what to do but to help me go on with one step further. Please help me whenever you can. Thank you very much Stefanos Sofroniou -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20060509/bfcfedb7/attachment-0001.html