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• Call the power company.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 24 2013 @ 10:13 PM EDT

“Trouble with that is that the OS doesn't recognise the USB code for the UPS”

I recently bought a USB Smart Card reader, which, according to the packaging, was compatible with Linux, but my Ubuntu 10.04 system wouldn't recognise it. Under Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 13, on the other hand, the device worked great.

Turned out that the device should be managed by a libccid library, which uses a configuration file in which the recognised vendor and device IDs are listed. I simply copied said file over from Ubuntu 12.04 to 10.04, and ever since, the device is working great under the older system as well.

Perhaps the USB interface to UPS devices works similarly?

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• Ups should be informing computer before scramming.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 25 2013 @ 09:57 PM EDT