From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 21 17:46:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43CF916A420 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:46:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mailing-lists@msdi.ca) Received: from mail02.msdihosting.net (9.67-18-64.networks.msdihosting.net [64.18.67.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D502D43D81 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:46:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mailing-lists@msdi.ca) Received: from ian.msdi.ca ([70.83.205.150]) by mail02.msdihosting.net ((iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003))) with SMTP id CLI20599 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:47:47 -0500 Message-Id: <7.0.0.16.2.20060221124410.0502eb60@msdi.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.0.16 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:46:24 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ian Lord In-Reply-To: <200602211047.24449.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> References: <20060221140925.84974.qmail@web34007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200602210950.27094.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <43FB3AF8.2050209@mac.com> <200602211047.24449.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-DEBUG: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:46:40 -0000 At 11:47 2006-02-21, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: >On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:08, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > > > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > > > > >> No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or > > >> serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. > > > > > > As best I can tell from the OP's description, and the APC website, > > > they all have a UPS port. Go from there. > > > > All of the new Smart-UPS APC models that they are selling now have > > USB ports. > > > > There are plenty of older models around in the channel, and there is > > the entire Back-UPS model line that are not "smart", and thus have no > > monitoring/shutdown capabilities. See the Subject: header... > > >Then, thats got to be a really old, old one. I've been working (playing >with actually) with computers since the color computer. I won't admit >to anything further back than that. I've never seen one that didn't >have some means of communication (monitoring). Not from APC anyway. > >I think the model number from the case would tell us a lot. I think... >therefore I sometimes blow smoke. > >Don Lol in my own opinion, if the user that asked the question can't figure out there is a usb/serial port on the unit (I took the assumption as true :) I can hardly see how he would manage to compile and configure apcupsd :)