From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 15:24:46 2008 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 8D9191065679 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:24:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB408FC18 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:24:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [IPv6:::1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7TFORhe096335; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:24:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:24:10 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <004701c90998$c9d70240$5d8506c0$@com> In-Reply-To: <004701c90998$c9d70240$5d8506c0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808291124.10275.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [IPv6:::1]); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:24:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.1/8115/Thu Aug 28 21:49:47 2008 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Jonathan Bond-Caron Subject: Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O 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: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:24:46 -0000 On Friday 29 August 2008 01:33:36 am Jonathan Bond-Caron wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a dell 1750 server with ERA/O card running on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE > > According to Dell, the ERA card supports ipmi 1.0: > > http://linux.dell.com/ipmi.shtml > > But so far no luck with freebsd :/ If your BIOS doesn't tell us about the IPMI BMC via ACPI or SMBIOS, you can try using hints (I've seen machines thave a BMC, but the BIOS doesn't bother to tell you about it). Dell boxes I've seen have KCS at the default address, so you can just do: hint.ipmi.0.at=isa0 hint.ipmi.0.mode=KCS Either add that to /boot/device.hints or for a test just explicitly set those variables at the loader prompt before booting. -- John Baldwin