[CentOS] Need to test serial port connection

Fri Feb 27 09:38:33 UTC 2009
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>

On Thursday 26 February 2009 21:49, nate wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > The docs that come with nut say that you can use either serial or usb.
>
> I certainly could be wrong but I would not expect the USB driver
> to work over a serial port. Though the serial driver could work
> over a USB->serial adapter as in my case, since the USB stuff
> is totally abstracted by the dongle.
>
> So if your using the serial port try to use a driver that is
> not specifically targeted at usb use.
>
> I didn't notice any other drivers for your UPS other than the
> USB one, you should try the usb port on the thing, and see
> what happens(run NUT as root if you can't get it working to
> see if that helps, need to change the init script to do it).
>
The install instructions give clear sections and details for usb or serial 
connection.  I'm confident that I followed the correct section.

Anne