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Add a FAQ entry for supported but not working USB UPS
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aquette committed Mar 13, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -538,6 +538,24 @@ renamed to usbhid-ups.
usbhid-ups is built automatically if possible (libusb development files
need to be installed) and installed by the "make install" command.

== My USB UPS is supported but doesn't work!

On Linux, udev rules are provided to set the correct permissions on device file.
This allows the NUT driver to communicate with the UPS, through this device file.

However, the driver may still failed to start and support the device, with a
message like:

failed to claim USB device: could not claim interface 0: Operation not permitted

*Operation not permitted* is a message pointing a privilege issue.
The most frequent issue is that udev has not actually applied the rule:

- if NUT has been freshly installed,
- and if the device USB cord was already plugged when installing nut.

In this case, just unplug and plug back the USB cord, then restart nut.

== Why doesn't my package work?

Or a variation like...
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