I bought a Tripp Lite Omnismart 1000 INT PNP ups. I have never before used a UPS and am now living in an area with frequent power failures.
Now I have a few questions about he setup and software. According to the documentation "The port must be set to run at 2400 baud, gety/login off, modem control enabled." The man page for setserial says baud_base baud_base This option sets the base baud rate, which is the clock frequency divided by 16. Normally this value is 115200, which is also the fastest baud rate which the UART can support. 1. Does that mean that I have to do a setserial /dev/ups baud_base 38400(16*2400) to get 2400 baud? (I made a symlink /dev/ups --> /dev/ttyS2). I have tried the baud_base 2400 option but setserial would not accept it. 2. Do I have to use the ^hup_notify option to disable getty/login on the port? 3. What is "modem control" and how do I enable it on a serial port? 4. I see that genpower and smartups are two Linux packages that have configurations for the Tripplite UPS. Genpower is part of the Debian distribution and smartups not. Any opinion on which is would be the best package to use in my setup? 5. I see in the documentation there was supposed to be a software CD with the UPS which including software for unix. I notified the dealer that the CD was missing and he is trying to get it for me. Will such unix software work on Debian Linux or must I confine my use of software to the abovementioned packages. Johann. -- J.H. Spies, Hugenotestraat 29, Posbus 80, Franschhoek, 7690, South Africa Tel/Faks 021-876-2337 Sel/Cell 082 898 1528(Johann) 082 255 2388(Hester) "Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." John 20:29