From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 17:04:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5E616A407 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:04:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9CB513C441 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:04:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from arbitor.digitalfreaks.org (arbitor.digitalfreaks.org [216.151.95.158]) (AUTH: LOGIN seklecki, SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:54:14 -0500 id 00056440.45A51A36.0000AA23 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:53:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian A. Seklecki" X-X-Sender: lavalamp@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org To: Paul Schmehl In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070110115218.U18382@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:04:30 -0000 Dell bumbed the DRAC5 like a shark. We use them on handful of 9th-gen PEs. The client support for Console and Remote Media completely sucks and requires VMWare + IE6. See linux-poweredge@lists.dell.com for more detail. Specifically the firefox drac5 threads. ~BAS On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: > Is anyone using the Dell DRAC 5 cards on 6.1-RELEASE? I played with it over > the weekend and couldn't seem to get it working. Then, last night, it > suddenly started working. (I can access the web admin interface now.) For > some reason, I couldn't ping the card at all, even though I used STATIC and > assigned known good IP, netmask and gateway. Then, for no apparent > reason,it started working, after another reboot. (Needless to say, my > confidence in the card isn't exactly soaring.) > > The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm > wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality working > under linux emulation. If so, how did you install the rpm? And which > emulation did you use? > > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Adjunct Information Security Officer > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk" meant nothing, "diskquota" meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of pages of laser printout - and frequently were."