[plug] UPS's with Linux support

[Chris Cornish]

i have contacted a friend of mine over east and he says the linux
software only comes on Alpha 6000 and above so i do appoligise but i
was beliving that if it came with one it would come with all (doh this
is the IT industry isn't it nothing ever makes sense)  



---Paul Wilson <hooker at opera.iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> 
> >Paul all the ALPHA UPS'S i have seen come with drivers for the
> >following Wnidows NT Windows 95 SCO Unix AIX LINUX and OS/2. the OS/2
> >ones come on diskette and the rest are on the cd-rom i will see if i
> >can source them from a friend of mine who has them running under
linux
> >for you paul but i think you should have them. He has the alpha 9000
> >UPS which did you get?
> 
> 
> I've (or rather, the client has) the 500SVA. There's a floppy with the
> Win9x/NT drivers on it, plus a CD which ought to be a chargable option
> (Atkins Carlisle made a mistake & it was a freebie) with sundry UNIX
s/w on
> it. No Linux, and a series of blank looks when I phoned AC & Alpha
> themselves and mentioned Linux.  I'm sure that you can imagine a
blank look
> over the phone !   :-)
> 
> I downloaded statserial from sunsite this morning and ran it against
the
> port that the UPS cable was plugged into and saw nothing useful at
all.
> Regardless of whether or not mains was being fed into the UPS the
signals
> didn't change.  Now *that* puzzles me.
> 
> If it wasn't for the fact that I had 2 slightly different cables
between the
> UPS & Linux, I'd blame the cable at this point.  I'm almost tempted
to say
> that this UPS doesn't do anything with the serial port, except that
the tiny
> A5 manual says that it does.  The next step is to attach it to one
of the
> Win95/8 clients there, load the software and play.
> 
> Paul
> (frustrated again)
> 
> 

==

Chris Cornish
Linux Computer World
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