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I haven't tried the patch yet, but I just found part of the problem,
it's related to the problem that was mentioned on the SUSE thread. The
FreeBSD port configures nut as user and group uucp. By default, the
ugen devices are root:operator. I just added uucp to the operator
group and now it at least sees my MGE!<br>
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It looks like I'm getting data, I'll have to unplug the UPS from the
wall tonight and see if the battery starts to show that it is
discharging. The last time I tried this, it would get the initial data
but never change until the driver was reloaded (not all that useful in
that state).<br>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Charles Lepple wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 10/16/07, Dan Rich <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:drich@employees.org"><drich@employees.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Does anyone have any thoughts as to the magic incantation to get
this working?
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<pre wrap="">I believe you need to recompile the kernel to not include the "uhid"
driver, so that the UPS is available as a ugen device. (In FreeBSD,
this should not affect the use of a USB HID keyboard or mouse.)
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Even so I doubt it will be very reliable :(
I did create a diff that might help but noone tested it (and I don't
have an MGE UPS handy at the moment to test it myself)
Note that while this will still cause data to be dropped it should a)
log the fact, and b) do it in a way that doesn't cause the UPS driver
to get out of sync.
ugen should really be fixed to not use clist buffers but that can wait
for another day :)
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