Hey all,

I have generic ups that only came with windoze software (gee whiz). Anyone know where/how to connect to fc2.

Paul.

I give up.

What kind of 'ups' do you mean?

Uninterruptible Power Supply?

Something else?

Hey Bigrig

Yes, I mean uninterruptable (as apposed to interruptable) power supply. I have a serial cable to com1 however I dont know how to control it under fc2.

Paul

You can take a look here or even here

Most ups support the Carrier Detect (CD) = low battery, and Clear To Send (CTS) = on battery, status signals. These are the easiest to deal with and most portable, however some UPS, especially APC brand, use a newer serial communication method that does not use the CD/CTS lines.
If you have one of these UPS from APC you'll need to buy a special cable from APC called the Native Shutdown Cable, which does not come with your UPS.
The one that comes with will not work for software that wants status via CD/CTS lines.
On the other hand if it is a APC ups you can download and install their software which communicates with the ups serially so there's no problem.
Personally I hate the APC provided software and write my own UPS daemon software that uses CD/CTS statusing methods.

what make and model ups is it?