Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:47:57 -0500 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Jeff <anon1@santaba.com> Subject: Re: IPMI doesn't work... Message-ID: <200503141747.57487.jkim@niksun.com> In-Reply-To: <4235E6CC.7040909@santaba.com> References: <4235E6CC.7040909@santaba.com>
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On Monday 14 March 2005 02:32 pm, Jeff wrote: > <posted this to -questions too but thought the nic component made > it worth posting to -net> > > on a 5.3 amd64 system. anyone have any luck or know anything about > this? i can query variables right up until the point where the > kernel loads, then nothing. ibm is saying this can be caused by > the actual nic driver (the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) > shares the network interface); the system uses a Broadcom BCM5704C > Dual gig adapter: > > bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003> > mem 0xfe000000-0xfe00ffff,0xfe010000-0xfe01ffff irq 24 at device > 1.0 on pci2 Does 'in-band' mode work for you? Try FreeIPMI to check: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/freeipmi/ > anyone have any idea why this may be the case? unfortunately for > me and others here, the inability to remotely manage boxes > (console/power cycle/detect drive failures/etc) via ipmi will be a > deal breaker in our push for FBSD in our fleet (couple hundred) of > dual proc amd64 IBM e325 servers. SuSE here we come > (unwillingly)... BTW, SuSE won't work for you: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0532.html Jung-uk Kim > thx
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