while trying to get apccupsd to work, I thought I had followed all the required items, but something is wrong in the kernel part that is supposed to claim the UPS: OS: Linux version 2.6.14 (root@iaw) (gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #2 Wed Nov 30 10:47:10 EST 2005 Model APC Back-UPS ES 725 first attempt: Nov 30 11:15:34 iaw apcupsd[15104]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in linux-usb.c at line 597 Cannot find UPS device -- For a link to detailed USB trouble shooting information, please see <http://www.apcupsd.com/support.html>. Nov 30 11:15:35 iaw apcupsd[15104]: apcupsd error shutdown completed # lsusb Bus 004 Device 003: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Back-UPS Pro 500/1000/1500 # ls -l /sys/bus/usb/drivers/ ' total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 30 11:32 hub drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 30 11:32 usb drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 30 11:32 usbfs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 30 11:32 usbhid drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 30 11:32 usblp [after a hot plug, in /var/log/messages] Nov 30 11:22:25 iaw usb 4-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Nov 30 11:22:26 iaw HID device not claimed by input or hiddev Regards, /iaw Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/p ub/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" LC_ALL="POSIX" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 calendar cdr crypt cups curl directfb dv dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode esd exif expat f77 fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp g77 gd gdbm ggi gif glut gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal lcms ldap libedit libwww lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad mbox mhash mikmod mime mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mval mysql nas ncurses nls ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl session slang snmp soap spell ssl symlink tcltk tcpd tetex tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev ungif usb userlocales vorbis xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
more info: after a kernel upgrade to 2.6.15-rc4, the APC UPS is still unclaimed. usb 4-1: USB disconnect, address 2 usb 4-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 HID device not claimed by input or hiddev alas, the same APC UPS device is claimed nicely on a different i386 machine, same kernel version: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Device [APC Back-UPS ES 725 FW:802.n2.D USB FW:n2] on usb-0000:00:03.0-2 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:03.2-1 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid so, I wonder if there is something in usbhid that does not work under an AMD64, or something else on my AMD64 machine that interferes here. interesting. /iaw
Maybe a silly question, but did you enable CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV in your kernel? -- Bruno
from the gentoo wiki: Second, the Preliminary USB device filesystem is very important (as I found when I took my first swing at this project). I had neglected to build this in; the result gave me a seemingly functional installation with full communication between apcupsd and the UPS. I just couldn
from the gentoo wiki: Second, the Preliminary USB device filesystem is very important (as I found when I took my first swing at this project). I had neglected to build this in; the result gave me a seemingly functional installation with full communication between apcupsd and the UPS. I just couldnt get apcupsd to shutdown the machine, which I viewed as a rather important piece of functionality. Make sure its there. ...and, of course, it was not there. mea culpa. (thought I had it covered with usbhid).
