Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:13:35 -0500 From: zjoe@sundsu1.deltast.edu To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jon <juostaus@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Need help with software to run my APC UPS Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20020716141335.007f6430@sundsu1.deltast.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020715230306.61375.qmail@web40306.mail.yahoo.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20020715162307.007d7ca0@sundsu1.deltast.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I'm keeping the freebsd-questions on these emails
in case someone needs to know this stuff, too. :)
At 04:03 PM 7/15/02 -0700, you wrote:
>--- zjoe@sundsu1.deltast.edu wrote:
>>
>> >did you comment out
>> >
>> >#ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off
>> secure
>> >or
>> >#ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off
>> secure
>> > in /etc/ttys? this was my problem.
>>
>> Tried this and it didn't work.
>>
>> This is where I stand now:
>>
>> 1. Two computers each with a APC Back-UPS Pro 650
>> and cable
>> attached (one has a 940-0095A and the other has a
>> 940-0095B).
>>
>> 2. One computer runs FreeBSD4.6 and the other runs
>> FreeBSD4.4
>>
>> 3. *Neither* computer will work with "bkpupsd" or
>> "apcupsd"
>> from the ports collection.
>>
>> A) type: bkpupsd /dev/cuaa0
>> result: on one computer it starts the daemon,
>> but won't perform
>> when power plug is pulled,
>> on the other computer it starts the
>> daemon, but immediately
>> annouces the power has failed and
>> shuts down
>>
>> B) type: apcupsd start
>> result: one computer hangs, the other
>> complains it can't communicate
>> with UPS.
>>
>> Note: A guy on the apcupsd mail-list has the same
>> exact UPS+cable
>> and runs FreeBSD4.6 and sent me his "apcupsd.conf"
>> file. I had
>> the same result with it.
>>
>> 4. Tried installing "upsd" from the ports
>> collection on one computer
>> and the computer hung on booting -- isn't this one
>> needed for NUT to work?
>> (Also installed NUT, BTW.)
>>
>> 5. Totally baffled at this point.
>>
>> According to apcupsd.com, one possible source of
>> error in a
>> situation like this one is:
>>
>> "Chosen serial port has logins enabled. You must
>> disable logins on that
>> port, otherwise, the system prevents apcupsd from
>> using it. Normally, the
>> file /etc/inittab specifies the ports for which a
>> getty process is started.
>> You must disable getty for the port which you wish
>> to use."
>>
>> I'm not sure I disabled logins for the device
>> correctly.
>> Not sure what to do now.
>>
>> Important note: Several years ago one of these UPSs
>> worked with
>> "bkpupsd" with the exact same hardware -- but after
>> I upgraded that very
>> old version of FreeBSD it won't work.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> :)
>>
>
>the first suggestion i sent was to to make the changes
>to /etc/tty that should disable logins via serial ;)
Yeah, this didn't seem to change anything.
>are the ports enabled in the bios? cuaa0 (serial 1 )
>should be port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4.
I checked and one computer had serial 1 disabled.
So, obviously this is a problem. I tried to change it
to enabled but then I had some kind of conflict.
I don't really know about this stuff.
The other computer has:
serial port 1 3F8/IRQ4
serial port 2 2F8/IRQ3
Thanks,
Joe B.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Joseph A. Bentley
Professor of Chemistry
Dept. of Physical Sciences Phone: (662) 846-4482
P.O. Box 3255-DSU FAX: (662) 846-4486
Delta State University E-mail: jbentley@dsu.deltast.edu
Cleveland, MS 38733 E-mail: zjoe@sundsu1.deltast.edu
"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
-- Gore Vidal
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3.0.6.32.20020716141335.007f6430>