Accessing a USB device

[Janina Sajka]

Very cool! All's well that ends well!

I've seen this before, Chuck, where you have to restart once or twice to
get it all working. I've seen it on usb, and elsewhere, too. For the
longest time, my high end audio device worked that way. Had to restart
alsa twice--then everything was fine.

Chuck Hallenbeck writes:
> 
> Well I'll be dipped!
> 
> Suddenly it's working. After writing about my woes I thought I'd try it 
> one more time, and at least generate that "failure to register" error. 
> When I unplugged the USB cable and plugged it in again, I got this:
> 
> usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 3
> 
> usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
> hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Device [APC Back-UPS ES 350 FW:800.e5.D USB 
> FW:e5] on usb-0000:00:0b.0-1
> *** There used to be an error message appearing right here, but this 
> time none. ***
> 
> So then I ran the test program, which said I might still have a problem, 
> but I went ahead anyway and ran the monitoring daemon, which ran without 
> complaint. Next, I ran the "access" program to display the status of my 
> UPS, and here is my proud outcome:
> 
> APC      : 001,033,0813
> DATE     : Thu Jun 23 20:15:27 EDT 2005
> HOSTNAME : hhs48
> RELEASE  : 3.10.17
> VERSION  : 3.10.17 (18 March 2005) debian
> UPSNAME  : hhs48
> CABLE    : USB Cable
> MODEL    : Back-UPS ES 350
> UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
> STARTTIME: Thu Jun 23 19:58:30 EDT 2005
> STATUS   : ONLINE
> LINEV    : 118.0 Volts
> LOADPCT  :   9.0 Percent Load Capacity
> BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
> TIMELEFT :  42.1 Minutes
> MBATTCHG : 5 Percent
> MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes
> MAXTIME  : 0 Seconds
> LOTRANS  : 088.0 Volts
> HITRANS  : 138.0 Volts
> ALARMDEL : Always
> BATTV    : 13.5 Volts
> NUMXFERS : 0
> TONBATT  : 0 seconds
> CUMONBATT: 0 seconds
> XOFFBATT : N/A
> STATFLAG : 0x02000008 Status Flag
> MANDATE  : 2005-04-17
> SERIALNO : AB0516149651
> BATTDATE : 2000-00-00
> NOMBATTV :  12.0
> FIRMWARE : 00.e5.D USB FW:e5
> APCMODEL : Back-UPS ES 350
> END APC  : Thu Jun 23 20:15:53 EDT 2005
> 
> 
> *** Theoretically I know what all that stuff means. That is, I know 
> where to look it up! <smile> ***
> 
> 
> Now for my obsessive self flagellation: I don't know why the damn thing 
> did not work before, and I don['t know why it is working now. But this 
> is looking pretty good to me right now. A prolonged power outage will 
> shut my system down gracefully, and will also turn off the UPS itself. I 
> will have to do some more configuring to get it to restart unattended 
> when power is restored, but the book says I can do that if I want to.
> 
> Pretty soon this computer will not need me at all, for anything, and I 
> will be FREE!
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> 
> The Moon is Waning Gibbous (95% of Full)
> But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
> 
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