I am trying to see if there is any way to add a serial port on an Abit AB9 Pro. I was given a APC smartUPS 700 but it only has a serial connection and my MOBO does not have one. I want to use APCUPSD to control it 

 

Thanks, 

You can drop in a pci card or use a USB to serial adapter.

DUH!!!! Don't know why I did not think of either of these...sometimes the obvious slips right by me

 

Thanks,

Happens to all of us 

In fact I just happen to buy a ubs-serial adapter recently cuz I wanted to hack my Thecus... Then after your question, it made me realize I can't put my new used UPS online until I put the usb to serial adapter on the unRAID system (right now I have it all networked through my administrative server).

Thanks.

 

I am assuming that it will still detect the UPS thru the adapter, right?

I cannot say for sure on the unRAID platform. I've read that the usb-to-serial adapters show up as a /dev/ttyxx serial port (Which is all you should need).

But I've yet to see this occur, and even to see it occur on unRAID. I'll try and test it out over the next few days.

 

If that does not work for you, another choice is to get a used SNMP management card, and put an SNMP facility on your unRAID machine.

I know people that have done this on regular machines. Not sure how complicated this is on unRAID.

Ok cool...thanks.

 

Let me know if you try it out

MY first test proves that

1. it was detected by the system as a USB device.

2. It does not come up as a serial port.

 

From what I can gather USB Serial port is not enabled in the kernel

 

#
# USB Serial Converter support
#
# CONFIG_USB_SERIAL is not set

 

if I have a chance I'll recompile and see if mine works.

Ok great....thanks.

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I think you hit the wrong thread bjp999 

Have you gotten anywhere yet WeeboTech....just curious

Have you gotten anywhere yet WeeboTech....just curious

 

No I recompiled the kernel, but I've been waiting for a few torrents to finish before installing and rebooting.

Should be within a day or so.

Ok cool...thanks alot for looking into this.

Has anyone found out yet if something like this:

http://www.buy.com/prod/keyspan-high-speed-usb-serial-adapter-keyspan-high-speed-usb-serial/q/loc/101/10357749.html?adid=17653&dcaid=17653 would work with unraid and a UPS?

 

Thanks,

you have to make sure the unit purchased has native linux drivers.

Some have proprietary drivers that may not compile with current kernel levels.

There are few on newegg.com that have native linux support. Check out the chipsets and reviews there.