Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

[Mike Tancsa]

At 08:09 PM 10/5/2006, Karl Denninger wrote:
> >
> > ugen0: American Power Conversion Smart-UPS 750 FW:651.12.D USB 
> FW:4.2, rev 1.10/0.06, addr 2
>
>Does apcupsd connect to it?  I tried this back on 5.x and it failed
>miserably.  It identified the unit, but wouldn't talk to it.

I literally have 150+ remote FreeBSD boxes with them and they succeed 
fantastically...  They are configured to shut down the box and power 
to the UPS outlets on power failure with 25% battery left.  All the 
notification hooks work as expected.  They have been working for me 
since the 5.x days. I have a few in the field running on 5.4 boxes 
(May 2005) without issue. (ugen0: APC Back-UPS ES 725 FW:802.n2.D USB 
FW:n2, rev 1.10/1.06, addr 2)

[ps0006]# apcaccess
APC      : 001,034,0908
DATE     : Thu Oct 05 20:28:56 EDT 2006
HOSTNAME : ps0006.sentex.ca
RELEASE  : 3.10.18
VERSION  : 3.10.18 (21 July 2005) freebsd
UPSNAME  : RAPIDS
CABLE    : USB Cable
MODEL    : Back-UPS ES 500
UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: Wed Jun 14 11:00:07 EDT 2006
STATUS   : ONLINE
LINEV    : 120.0 Volts
LOADPCT  :  12.0 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT :  29.9 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 25 Percent
MINTIMEL : -1 Minutes
MAXTIME  : 0 Seconds
LOTRANS  : 088.0 Volts
HITRANS  : 139.0 Volts
ALARMDEL : 30 seconds
BATTV    : 13.6 Volts
NUMXFERS : 19
XONBATT  : Mon Sep 25 10:53:00 EDT 2006
TONBATT  : 0 seconds
CUMONBATT: 173 seconds
XOFFBATT : Mon Sep 25 10:53:02 EDT 2006
STATFLAG : 0x02000008 Status Flag
MANDATE  : 2005-10-13
SERIALNO : JB0542018502
BATTDATE : 2000-00-00
NOMBATTV :  12.0
FIRMWARE : 24.B1.D USB FW:B1
APCMODEL : Back-UPS ES 500
END APC  : Thu Oct 05 20:28:57 EDT 2006
[ps0006]# usbdevs
addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA
  addr 2: Back-UPS ES 500 FW:824.B1.D USB FW:B1, APC
addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA
addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA
addr 1: UHCI root hub, VIA
addr 1: EHCI root hub, VIA
[ps0006]#