APC UPS USB on 1.2

[yozh]

Ok I was able to do it now. The irq 10 is clean now, still no luck with the devices

dmesg | grep "irq 10"

uhci1: <intel 82801ba="" bam="" (ich2)="" usb="" controller="" usb-b="">port 0xdc00-0xdc1f irq 10 at device 31.4 on pci0

ls

acd0            cuad1          net11          nfs4            ttyv3
acpi            cuad1.init      net12          nfslock        ttyv4
ad0            cuad1.lock      net13          null            ttyv5
ad0s1          devctl          net14          pci            ttyv6
ad0s1a          devstat        net15          pf              ttyv7
ad0s1b          fd              net16          ppi0            ttyv8
ad0s1c          fd0            net17          ptyp0          ttyv9
agpgart        fido            net18          random          ttyva
apm            geom.ctl        net19          speaker        ttyvb
ata            io              net2            stderr          ttyvc
atkbd0          kbd0            net20          stdin          ttyvd
bpf0            kbd1            net21          stdout          ttyve
bpf1            kbdmux0        net22          sysmouse        ttyvf
bpf2            klog            net23          ttyd0          urandom
bpf3            kmem            net24          ttyd0.init      usb
bpf4            lpt0            net3            ttyd0.lock      usb0
console        lpt0.ctl        net4            ttyd1          usb1
consolectl      md0            net5            ttyd1.init      xpt0
crypto          mdctl          net6            ttyd1.lock      zero
ctty            mem            net7            ttyp0
cuad0          net            net8            ttyv0
cuad0.init      net1            net9            ttyv1
cuad0.lock      net10          network        ttyv2

I dont have to reinstall do I ?</intel>

[yozh]

The funny thing is that when I disconnect the UPS I get this messages,

Apr 14 22:58:09 pfsense kernel: (null): at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
Apr 14 23:00:02 pfsense kernel: (null): at uhub0 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected

but nothing on connect to eather port, and this was all good before :(

[hoba]

Reinstallation should not be neccessary but maybe it would help. Try to fire up the livecd and see if it detects the hotplug of the ups before reinstalling.

Oh, and did you try to reset the ups? Maybe it has crashed and doesn't provide useful information anymore to the system?

[yozh]

I tried with another UPS and all the same, for some reason it doesn't see that kind of UPS, I was able to use a USB keyboard, USB jumpdrive all fine hotpluged and everything, but when I plug in the UPS I get nothing…...... I disabled everything in the BIOS even the floppy...... This is very strange I wonder whats different here vs 1.0.1

For reference its a APC Backup UPS ES 350R

[hoba]

I would start searching freebsd lists regarding usb and that ups. 1.0.1 and 1.2 have different freebsd versions. 1.2 is much newer of course.

[yozh]

Yeah I figured as much, I looked last night, couldn't really find much. I cant remember what version of FreeBSD was 1.0.1 on ?

[hoba]

6.1 iirc.

[yozh]

Well I looked around, and I cant find anything. I will try installing 6.2 on a white box and try connecting to it to see what happenes.

[Cry Havok]

Worth visiting the NUT (Network UPS Tools) list archive too.  ISTR that FreeBSD and USB UPS support is still pretty poor.

[yozh]

Thanks tried everything and nothing works. SO maybe downgrade is in  my future. :(

[David_W]

Rather than downgrading, you can look the other way to see if that will help. pfSense 1.2.1 should be here by the end of the month, and will be based on FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE (rather than the 6.2-RELEASE used in 1.2).

Click here for the development snapshots. The ISO works fine on my Dell Poweredge R200, which, being ICH9 based, will not work with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. However, it's not advised to use this in production.