<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks for the reply.</span></div><div><span>I did lsusb as root. The system logs are void of any reference to the UPS being connected/disconnected. I changed the USB cable, replaced the batteries, it all did not matter. I have difficulty believing that the USBhardware or software stack in the UPS is broken, that just doesn't usually happen.<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Charles Lepple <clepple@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Laszlo Hazy
<hazy_l@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org" <nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 7, 2011 10:21:40 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Nut-upsuser] Belkin F6C550-AVR<br></font><br>On Nov 7, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Laszlo Hazy wrote:<br><br>> The interesting thing is that lsusb does not show the UPS, which is weird to me. And yes, the cable is plugged in and the USB port on the PC does work (tried with a mass-storage device).<br><br>This is key. If the kernel doesn't recognize the UPS as a valid USB device, neither will NUT.<br><br>Have you tried running lsusb as root?<br><br>Do you get any messages in dmesg when you plug in the UPS?<br><br><br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>