That was the problem. I needed to set up udev to take care of the device permissions. Now the only thing I really need to do is mess around with my init scripts. upsdrvctl doesn't want to start from the init.d/nut start script. Thank you for all the help. If anyone is interested in more detail on anything I did feel free to ask.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Brei</b> <<a href="mailto:mattbrei@gmail.com">mattbrei@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span class="q">[cps]<br> driver = newhidups<br># port = /dev/bus/usb/004/002<br> port = auto<br> desc = "UPS connected to cerebrum via USB"<br> bus = 004<br></span></div><div>
vendorid = 0764<br> productid = 0501
<br> generic<br><br><br>Still nothing. I tried the generic option to see if it would help, but still nothing. I think I may have found it. It looks like hotplug is no longer available on Kubuntu Dapper. I just noticed that my scanner isn't working anymore either which when I originally got it working, was a hotplug problem.
</div><div><span class="e" id="q_10d13a8fef8d9743_2"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Brei</b> <<a href="mailto:mattbrei@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
mattbrei@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>[cps]<br> driver = newhidups<br># port = /dev/bus/usb/004/002<br> port = auto<br> desc = "UPS connected to cerebrum via USB"<br># bus = 004<br><br>#[cps]<br># driver = cyberpower
<br># port = /dev/ttyS0<br># desc = "UPS connected to cerebrum via serial"<br><br>No, I haven't tried vendor id. I'll give that a whirl.<br><br><div></div><div><span><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Kjell Claesson</b> <<a href="mailto:kjell.claesson@telia.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">kjell.claesson@telia.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></div><div><span>
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tis 2006-08-15 klockan 15:32 -0500 skrev Matt Brei:<br>> Updated to 2.1.0 and I get the same thing.<br>><br>> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.1.0<br>> Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver
0.28 - core 0.30<br>> (2.1.0)<br>><br>> No matching HID UPS found<br>> Driver failed to start (exit status=1)<br>><br><br>Send the ups.conf file.<br>Have you set up the vendorid?<br><br>Kjell<br><br><br></blockquote>
</span></div><div></div><br><br clear="all"></div><div><span><br>-- <br>Matt Brei<br>Brei Consulting<br>(708) 927-7189
</span></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matt Brei<br>Brei Consulting<br>(708) 927-7189
</span></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matt Brei<br>Brei Consulting<br>(708) 927-7189