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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.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: 1 Jan 1996 12:13:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4c8j5l$30e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4bpmav$3v1@news.fsu.edu> <4btqec$555@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4c8701$j87@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: > > ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/people/wunsch/smartups/ > > In case anyone is interested, the Minuteman UPS (I don't recall who makes > it) documents the use of the serial port in the manual, unlike APC. > I called APC when I was thinking of getting a UPS, and told them I want > to use it under operating systems other than the ones they support, and > asked if they would tell me the protocol, and they said no. Screw 'em. Well, their interface isn't much complicated. In case you've got a customer who insists in an APC for some reason, the above document might help you. Do the Minuteman's use the same protocol? (You'll find the protocol description in the file smartups.h in the above archive.) -- 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. ;-)