Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

[Karl Denninger]

What's your config like?  I hooked the USB back up and it identified, but
when I told it to use USB and specified the device, it panics (the software,
not the machine) with a complaint about not being able to talk to the UPS.

Works perfectly on a serial port...

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On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:35:32PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 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]#  
> 
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