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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