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Many UPSes have phone ports to provide surge protection
for phones or modems -- make sure you haven't plugged your USB
cable into one of those rather than the data port (which will
usually be near the top edge of the case.) Also, ensure that the correct drivers are loaded. Under
Linux-2.4.x, you can check this out easily by examining the
/proc/bus/usb/drivers file.