Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:24:10 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Jonathan Bond-Caron <jbondc@gmail.com> Subject: Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O Message-ID: <200808291124.10275.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <004701c90998$c9d70240$5d8506c0$@com> References: <004701c90998$c9d70240$5d8506c0$@com>
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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
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