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Hi all,

I took a stab at installing ipmitool on my PE750.

When I try to use it I get this.

The box is running FreeBSD 6.2 so my understanding is there is no kernel =
work to be done.

Can anyone take my blinders off and show me what I am missing?

excelsior# ipmitool sensor
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No =
such file or directory
Get Device ID command failed
Unable to open SDR for reading
excelsior#

-Grant