UPS - setserial - baud_base?
I bought a Tripp Lite Omnismart 1000 INT PNP ups. I have never before
used a UPS and am now living in an area with frequent power failures.
Now I have a few questions about he setup and software. According to
the documentation "The port must be set to run at 2400 baud,
gety/login off, modem control enabled."
The man page for setserial says
baud_base baud_base
This option sets the base baud rate, which is the
clock frequency divided by 16. Normally this value
is 115200, which is also the fastest baud rate
which the UART can support.
1. Does that mean that I have to do a setserial /dev/ups baud_base
38400(16*2400) to get 2400 baud? (I made a symlink /dev/ups -->
/dev/ttyS2). I have tried the baud_base 2400 option but setserial
would not accept it.
2. Do I have to use the ^hup_notify option to disable getty/login on
the port?
3. What is "modem control" and how do I enable it on a serial port?
4. I see that genpower and smartups are two Linux packages that have
configurations for the Tripplite UPS. Genpower is part of the Debian
distribution and smartups not. Any opinion on which is would be the
best package to use in my setup?
5. I see in the documentation there was supposed to be a software CD
with the UPS which including software for unix. I notified the dealer
that the CD was missing and he is trying to get it for me. Will such
unix software work on Debian Linux or must I confine my use of
software to the abovementioned packages.
Johann.
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