Tripp Lite UPS and Debian

["Amal Phadke" <phadke@hydrodyn.org>]

Hi all,

    Has anyone successfully used Tripp Lite's PowerAlert software (ver 11)
in Debian Unstable? I just bought a Tripp Lite BCPRO 600 with USB interface.
I am using stock 2.4.19 kernel from kernel.org custom compiled for my box.
The UPS is detected correctly. Here is the output from `cat
/proc/bus/usb/devices`

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=09ae ProdID=0001 Rev= 0.01
S:  Manufacturer=TRIPP LITE
S:  Product=TRIPP LITE BCPRO600
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr= 60mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID  ) Sub=01 Prot=00 Driver=hid
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=10ms

I have hiddev[0-15] device files in /dev/usb/hid with major 180 and minor
from 96-111.

After configuration I started PA in server mode. When I fire up PowerAlert
in client mode, it always fails with "unable to communicate with UPS at
<host> and <port>" error message. I just can't simply figure out how to fix
this. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
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Amal C. Phadke, Ph.D.
email: phadke at hydrodyn.org