On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:15:33 -0600, you wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to set up an APC Back_UPS XS 1500 battery backup? This APC ups works with a USB cable on the PC side connecting to an RJ-45 plug in the back of the ups. I'm using Suse 8.2. The apcupsd that comes with 8.2 does not seem to know how to handle the usb connection. Nor does the PowerChute I downloaded from APC, it only seems to work with serial. I tried installing rpm's from suse ftp for suse 9.0 and 9.1, but they have too many dependencies on 8.2.
Does anyone have an rpm for a newer version of apcupsd for suse 8.2?
Powerchute is crap. Use apcupsd. You're going to need to build from tarball because for no sane reason I cannot (and I've looked) find an rpm built with --enable-usb. That specifically includes the ones from suse. Build the most recent apcupsd (I'm using 3.10.15) with --enable-usb, then make these changes to the default apcupsd.conf file. UPSCABLE smart UPSTYPE usb DEVICE /dev/usb/hiddev0 Note you may need to change the device line. That should do it. Don't make any other changes in the apcupsd.conf file until you're sure you know what you're doing. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.