On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:34:13PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Just plugged in my P57281 Belkin 375VA battery backup. I can see it being > detected in /var/log/messages. > > The connection is USB, while upsd for instance is stated to work with a > "serial" (presumably RS-232C) connection. > > Sarge seems to contain only one package that can detect a Belkin UPS, nut. > However, nut's configuration instructions say to install "the driver for > your UPS", which I'm apparently supposed to magically have available from > some other source. This is confusing. For nut 2.0.1 you would specify the nut driver in /etc/nut/ups.conf. You can find a list of the drivers and supported UPS's in /usr/share/nut/driver. More complete documentation on the drivers should be in /usr/share/doc/nut/docs. > > There are two or three projects supporting Belkin products listed at > Freshmeat, but they aren't in Sarge and the two interesting ones are in > beta. > > Did I miss something in packages.debian.org? Should I file a > request-to-package for one or both of the projects I found at Freshmeat? -- Jerome
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