From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 11:40:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B35991065672 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 11:40:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEA98FC15 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 11:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (localhost.codelab.cz [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EEC019E039; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:40:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (r5bb235.net.upc.cz [86.49.61.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7F89B19E036; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:40:28 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C04F1AB.3010906@quip.cz> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:40:27 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PaulFr References: <20080809195935.F4976@borg> <20080809215249.T5563@borg> <20080810082410.X1306@borg> <57BE2631-7AED-443A-88E4-62456C048DD4@tamu.edu> <20080810102225.V1945@borg> <20080810120156.O1324@borg> <28737218.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <28737218.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPMI Console: No luck once OS is booted X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:40:32 -0000 PaulFr wrote: > > > Larry Rosenman wrote: >> >> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, David Duchscher wrote: >> >>> On Aug 10, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Larry Rosenman wrote: >>> >>>>> I don't have that IPMI card but I can say we have other cards of theirs >>>>> working. I would make sure the card is at the latest version of >>>>> firmware. >>>>> The AOC-SIMSO(+) card was not detected correctly until we upgraded. I >>>>> don't know why the card is going away when freebsd boots since I assume >>>>> you are on the dedicated LAN interface with its own IP address. >>>> Yes. It's not going away, just doesn't see the key strokes. >>> >>> Looking through your dmesg file, I don't see a USB keyboard being >>> attached. >>> On my system, the virtual keyboard is a USB keyboard. >>> >>> ukbd0: on >>> uhub3 >>> kbd2 at ukbd0 >> Good catch. When I set it to disable USB Mass Storage when no image >> is loaded, the ukbd came alive, and I'm typing this on the IPMI Console. >> >> Thanks! >>> >>> -- >>> DaveD >>> >> > > Larry > I have a similar problem as you describe in this posting using a SuperMicro > X8SIL-F motherboard with onboard IPMI. The console redirection works fine > during boot until the OS (pfSense - FreebSD 7.2 Release p5) boots and then I > can't enter anything from the keyboard. Screen output is OK. I notice > there is also no usb keyboard being detected during boot - instead a usb > mass storage device is added. Thus I suspect I am seeing the same issue as > you did. > > When you mentioned "When I set it to disable USB Mass Storage when no image > is loaded, the ukbd came alive..." how did you do that? Can you try to boot FreeBSD 8 or 7.3 live system, not installer? I had same problem with 7.2 installer, but IPMI works with installed 7.2 GENERIC kernel from HDD. 8.0 installer and installed GENERIC kernel works fine in both case. So I think there is some bug in older releases. Miroslav Lachman