-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-01-23 at 09:07 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
What a putz.
Just enough information to...make you wish you had the information you actually need. Worthless :-(
What is NECESSARY is what the UPS send out on the serial line to indicate that line power has been lost.
And then you'll find that many PCs do not have a serial port.
Universal SERIAL Bus.
I never realised that it doesn't count as a serial line.
Oh, common, Aaron! You have been long enough in this game and are old enough to know that when one says "serial line" without specifying the type, one refers to the rs232 type of serial line - unless you are a usb or firewire o sATA developer or similar. And you have known me long enough to at least guess that I know perfectly well that the usb is a serial bus.
If it's connected by USB, then the manufacturer can damn well describe the data that passes across it when it talks to a windows machine.
Calm down! The manufacturer mentioned a standard, named "Power Class HID USB". Usb devices follow a standard by which the operating system can identify a device and attach a diver automatically. For instance, a usb memory stick of (almost?) any maker is identified as 08h, Mass Interface, and directly usable in linux without installing anything more. Now, does linux understand this class? Does the manufacturer follow that standard closely enough? I have no idea. The OP could perhaps ask the guys that design the ups software in linux (not the manufacturer), or maybe they have a support list or whatever. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHmGSStTMYHG2NR9URAgj+AJ0ZoibyLGktj5sD3/8Nj0zDKZoJdgCfWO9V 2C82TIsA5qD1bnL+WUau2hc= =HKN+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org