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Subject: Re: FW: IPMI kernel module errors on 6.x
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Raymond Sundland writes:
| I purchased a new Supermicro Superserver SS6015B-T (motherboard is X7DBR-E)
| about 3 weeks ago with the IPMI module (part called SIMSO) and have had a
| hard time getting the IPMI functionality to work in RELENG_6.
| 
| Particularly, when I attempt to 'kldload ipmi' I get the following output in
| dmesg:
| 
| ipmi0: <IPMI System Interface> on isa0
| ipmi0: KCS mode found at mem 0xca2 alignment 0x4 on isa
| ipmi0: KCS: Failed to start write
| ipmi0: KCS Error retry exhausted
| ipmi0: KCS: Failed to start write
| ipmi0: KCS Error retry exhausted
| ipmi0: KCS: Failed to start write
| ipmi0: KCS Error retry exhausted
| ipmi0: Timed out waiting for GET_DEVICE_ID
| 
| >From the dmesg, it appears it's finding the IPMI device, but unable to
| interact with it.  Meanwhile, no device shows up in /dev so ipmitool does
| not work, either.
| 
| For reference, here is my uname:
| 
| FreeBSD exodus 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #9: Fri Nov 10 10:56:39
| PST 2006     root@exodus:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EXODUS  amd64
| 
| This is a RELENG_6 build with a CVSUP done just before the compile date of
| the kernel.
| 
| The SIMSO IPMI card itself works, I can access it via the web management
| console, I just can not get the kernel driver to work with it.  Any help
| and/or references would be greatly appreciated.

Could you try it static in the kernel and then with and without ACPI
enabled?

Doug A.