[Freeipmi-users] Rookie ipmiconsole question

[Tudor Holton]

Hi,

I've had mixed success with the various IPMI tools, but the 
freeipmi-tools seem to work best with an IBM x3250 M2 I've been handed 
to play with.  I've managed to do various things with bmc-config.

However, I'm really stuck at using the Serial-Over-Lan console.

If I do:
    ipmiconsole -h <bmc-ip>

I get:
    [SOL Established]
and it hangs as if waiting for me to do something.

I've read enough to know that this isn't an error.  I presume it's a 
connection?  Every howto I've looked at says "And your console should be 
connected at this point."  (or words to that effect.)  A couple 
reference the use of agetty.

However, if I do:
    agetty tty0
    or
    agetty tty1

The connection times out.

I don't know what to expect here because I've never used ipmi before.   
What should I be doing to get access to the SOL console? Being as it's 
serial I was expecting to use minicom or kermit or something like that.  
Should I be setting something up before making the SOL connection?  I'm 
using Ubuntu 12.10.

Cheers,
Tudor.