[Freeipmi-users] ACER FS1100A motherboard, nothing in /dev, ipmi_si fails to load.

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

First post.  First time using IPMI.  I have no clue what I'm doing.

I have an Acer Altos G310 server which has a FS1100A motherboard.
The machine is running Debian 'Squeeze' which allegedly provides IPMI
support.  All I want to do is log some temperatures.

# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.3 present.
62 structures occupying 1884 bytes.
Table at 0x000FAC40.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes
BIOS Information
        Vendor: Acer
        Version: QAIC0996
        Release Date: 09/30/2004
...
Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: Acer
        Product Name: Altos G310
...
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: Acer
        Product Name: FS1100A
...
Handle 0x003C, DMI type 38, 16 bytes
IPMI Device Information
        Interface Type: Unknown
        Specification Version: 1.5
        I2C Slave Address: 0x42
        NV Storage Device: Not Present
        Base Address: 0x0000000000000000 (Memory-mapped)

The full output of dmidecode is available here if requried:
http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/dmi_decode_output

The ipmi_devintf module loads without complaint and this
loads the impi_msghandler module automaticall but no ipmi* device is
created in /dev although there is an entry in /proc/devices.  Module
ipmi_si fails to load.

mail5:~# >>> uname -a
Linux mail5 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 04:23:54 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
mail5:~# >>> ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/
total 152
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13020 Nov  3 09:16 ipmi_devintf.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42036 Nov  3 09:16 ipmi_msghandler.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12232 Nov  3 09:16 ipmi_poweroff.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50480 Nov  3 09:16 ipmi_si.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24960 Nov  3 09:16 ipmi_watchdog.ko
mail5:~# >>> modprobe ipmi_devintf
mail5:~# >>> modprobe ipmi_si
FATAL: Error inserting ipmi_si 
(/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko): No such device
mail5:~# >>> lsmod | grep ipmi
ipmi_devintf            4029  0 
ipmi_msghandler        22871  1 ipmi_devintf
mail5:~# >>> dmesg | tail -n 2
[timestamp] IPMI System Interface driver.
[timestamp] ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
mail5:~# >>> cat /proc/devices | grep ipmi
252 ipmidev
mail5:~# >>> ls -l /dev | grep ipmi
mail5:~# >>>

I have tried to load the ipmi_si module using assorted manually set
parameters and met only failure.

Am I missing something obvious?

--

73,
Ged.