Re: [Freeipmi-users] Nuvoton WPCM450 SOL not working

[Kimitoshi Takahashi]

Hi Al,

Thanks for the quick response.
Both worked fine.
I can get getty prompt on ttyS2.

Here are the outputs.
address@hidden:~/SRC$ /usr/ccmp/sbin/ipmiconsole --version
ipmiconsole - 0.7.15.beta0

address@hidden:~/SRC$ /usr/ccmp/sbin/ipmiconsole -h 192.168.20.199 -u ADMIN -p 
ADMIN 
[SOL established]

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 lenny64 ttyS2

lenny64 login: 
[closing the connection]


address@hidden:~/SRC$ /usr/ccmp/sbin/ipmiconsole --version
ipmiconsole - 0.7.15.beta1
Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
Copyright (C) 2006-2007 The Regents of the University of California.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.

address@hidden:~/SRC$ /usr/ccmp/sbin/ipmiconsole -h 192.168.20.199 -u ADMIN -p 
ADMIN -W solstatus
[SOL established]

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 lenny64 ttyS2

lenny64 login: 
[closing the connection]

I still cann't get POST messages and BIOS output through SOL channel.
It seems the BIOS is not redirecting Console output to COM3, which is 
redirected to LAN.
But I think it certainly is a BIOS issue, not of freeipmi.

I'll ask supermicro about this.

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards,
Kimitoshi Takahashi

> Hi Kimitoshi,
> 
> I went ahead and made a workaround option.  PLMK if it works for you.
> 
> http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-0.7.15.beta1.tar.gz
> 
> the workaround is "solstatus" so you can do:
> 
> ipmiconsole -h host -u user -p password -W solstatus
> 
> to try it out.
> 
> Al
> 
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:59 -0800, Al Chu wrote:
>> Hi Takahashi,
>>
>> Thanks for the debug output.  It seems that this motherboard does not
>> like the "Get Activation Status" command..
>>
>> FreeIPMI does implement SOL differently that ipmitool.  Before
>> activating SOL, FreeIPMI makes sure that SOL is not in use (or if
>> appropriate flags/options are set, to kill a previous SOL session).
>> Ipmitool goes ahead and activiates, assuming deactivation on the command
>> line from the user if necessary.
>>
>> I will e-mail somebody at Supermicro that I know, and see if he can
>> reproduce and maybe get a fix for the long term.
>>
>> In the short term, here is a test tar.gz that removes the "Get SOL
>> Activation Status" stage of the SOL protocol.  Could you perhaps check
>> it out and see if ipmiconsole works?  If so, I can implement an
>> appropriate workaround for this situation.
>>
>> http://*ftp.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-0.7.15.beta0.tar.gz
>>
>> Al
>>