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

[Kimitoshi Takahashi]

Hi Al,

Of course I can.
Thank you very much for your help.

Kimitoshi

> Hey Kimitoshi,
> 
> Great.  I'll make sure that this fix is in the next release of FreeIPMI.
> For the time being, can you live w/ the beta release?
> 
> Al
> 
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:16 +0900, Kimitoshi Takahashi wrote:
>> 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
>>>>