[OmniOS-discuss] usb hid ups monitoring

[Paul B. Henson]

> From: Georgi Todorov
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 7:52 PM
>
> Originally it was OI, then OmniOS until about 3 days ago. I compiled nut
> myself, yes, but libusb is a major PITA. Basically you have to find the
> libusb packages from the latest opensolaris and install them. Then there
> were problems with libusb.h or something... it was a while ago and a big
> time sink.

Sheesh. I'm still curious if this is a deficiency on the libusb side or the illumos usb api side, maybe someday when I have the time I will follow up on the developer list.

> Yes and yes, the change is lost at reboot. I never got it to stick so I
> had to run it on boot every time before nut started. Otherwise the
> driver would not work.

That's interesting, the threads I read (which I think were about Solaris 10) indicated you needed a reboot to make it work, whereas you say it worked immediately but stopped working after a reboot 8-/. Oh well, I'm just going to run the serial cable at this point and worry about illumos usb issues another day :).

Thanks…