Plug: I'm wondering if any of you have or had a problem with this
particular product.  This is an email I sent to Belkin's Technical Leads.  
I'm hoping I can use their software before I try and us NUT
(http://www.exploits.org/nut/).  I guess the developer had a problem with
his belkin when testing:

"It is possible to convince your UPS that it is little more than a power
strip!"


quick specs:

Debian Linux
2.4.19-pre10-ac3
X11 4.2
KDE 3.0.5cvs
AMD Athlon 2100+
Asus A7v333 mobo
Regulator Pro™ 1400VA Network UPS Belkin Part Number: F6C100-4 (& using the
serial cable that came with the ups.)
Sentry bulldog drivers (linux.tar)<=== dated 3/19/02

Here is what I have done:

I went into my bios and made sure I put the serial 1  to irq 4, one that I
was not using.  Then I connected the cable and booted to WinXP.  My
computer is dual booted with XP (can't do everything under Linux).  I then
went  to your web site and downloaded the latest XP software
(http://web.belkin.com/support/download/download.asp?download=F6C100-4&lang=
1&mode=)
installed it and it worked fine! Everything looked good.  So then I
proceeded to my Linux partition, logged on as root, installed the linux.tar
software from your site (I noticed they where all the same).  Then Because
I know I have kernel support for my serial device I did a "lsmod" and my
serial.o driver was running and it shows that its in use when I'm running
the ./upsd service. /dev/ttyS3 (com4) is the correct device it should be
working under, why because I did a stty -F /dev/ttyS3 and it gives me all
the information, and even less info when I stop the ./upsd service.  So
when I start the ./upsd service (as root for now until I get this fixed) I
show it connected to the device and I hear my pc speaker beep.  Then I hear
my ups kick in as if it is testing itself (it did not do this in windows). 
This kind of made me nervous because it would do it every five minutes or
so.  So this looks like its working until I try to get any info from the
../monitor program.  It starts up and tells me that the ups is disconnected.
I've checked the settings countless times and its right as far as I'm
concerned.  IT was pointing to the com device.  So then I think let me try
another monitor program to see if well its the software.
(http://www.starforge.co.uk/gkrellm/) So I loaded a plugin that was made
for the Belkin upsd service. After playing with that for an hour I still
got no stats out of localhost:2701 or whatever the port is.  

So now I'm wondering if its the upsd service that is not wanting to work
right.  Is there something I'm missing or something I have not done?  

Jon Knudsen
unfm00.com

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