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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and APC SmartUPS Date: 6 Jan 1996 16:20:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4cm7fj$eli@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4bpmav$3v1@news.fsu.edu> <4btqec$555@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4c8701$j87@news1.halcyon.com> <4c8j5l$30e@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4cfqkg$9tj@news1.halcyon.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) writes: > J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > >Do the Minuteman's use the same protocol? (You'll find the protocol > >description in the file smartups.h in the above archive.) > > The Minuteman seems to use a much simpler protocol. ... > They don't seem to actually send any data either way--they just use a > couple of lines as on/off signals (probably the modem control signals?). Ah, then it's a ``dumb UPS'', not a `smart' one. Hellmuth Michaelis once wrote a driver for a dumb UPS under FreeBSD. I think he's been posting it to either comp.sources.unix, or alt.sources. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)