APC cabling requirements are just plain wierd (and stupid). They even
gave me a separate cable to use if the OS supported PNP. I finally got
mine working, but ONLY by using a 25-9 pin convert. Just plugging it
into a 9 pin port (and changing the config) did nothing.
Very wierd.
"Gary S. Mackay" wrote:
>
> Also, you need a different cable for *nix flavor OS's. You need the 0023 or
> something like that. Check their web site. I e-mailed them, and then just
> yesterday sent me the correct cable for free. I now as we speak, just got it
> working! Funny you should ask!
>
> - Gary
>
> Chris Egolf wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck using APC's PowerChute Plus for Linux?
> >
> > I've got an APC Back-UPS 500 and I've downloaded the 4.5.2 version of
> > PowerChute Plus. The serial cable is connected to COM2 (/dev/ttyS1),
> > but when I run the Config.sh utility I get the following messages:
> >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > WARNING: Port must be configured for modem control in order to work with a
> > > "Simple" Signaling UPS
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > WARNING: Could not communicate with device on /dev/ttyS1.
> > > Check that the communications cable is attached properly to both the device
> > > and the serial port.
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > WARNING: Serial communications never verified, the installed product may
> > > not work properly. You may want to try the following:
> > >
> > > 1) Check that specified serial device exists.
> > > 2) Check the device configuration is appropriate for your UPS type
> > > 3) Rebuild or create the serial device using the utility appropriate
> > > for your system.
> >
> > The documentation and their website isn't much help, unless I'm missing
> > something.
> >
> > What does 'Port must be configured for modem control' mean?
> > Do I have to use the setserial command to configure ttyS1 somehow?
> >
> > BTW, the serial cable works fine on the same UPS under NT4.0.
> >
> > Thanks
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> > Chris Egolf
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