Re: [Freeipmi-users] Using IPMI on Compulab MintBox

[Al Chu]

Hi Amos,

It definitely looks like your board does not publish any information
about addresses to communicate on your board.  This isn't the end of
the world, but if the system defaults aren't working (I assume
"ipmi_si", would try defaults, but I can't speak to that.  You'll have
to ask the "openipmi" project about that), it's possible your board
uses non-default device addresses that aren't advertised.

In this case, you just need to get the information from the vendor on
the right addresses to use and set things up with those addresses
specifically.

Al

On Mon, 2019-09-16 at 11:49 +0300, Amos Shapir wrote:
> Hi IPMI users,
> 
> I'm trying to use the IPMI tools on Compulab's MintBox, running
> Ubuntu
> 16.04and their Fitlet2 board.  This board includes an Intel I211
> network
> controller, which is supposed to have NC-SI capabilities, but the
> IPMI
> tools cannot communicate with it.
> 
> All tools seem to be running OK, but:
> - The *ipmi_si *kernel module doesn;t load, claiming "Unable to find
> any
> System Interface(s)"
> - Trying *ipmi-locate, *it states FAILED on all probed interfaces,
> and
> produces "wrong mapping type" error messages in the kernel's log
> (which may
> be caused by the missing kernel module)
> - *ipmiping* fails to get a response from any IP address (not
> surprising)
> 
> In short, it seems the device just doesn't advertise itself.  Does
> anyone
> on the list have experience with using I210/I211 under Linux, and how
> it
> should be configured?
> (The ultimate goal here is to use it to control another device via
> PHY)
> 
> Thanks much,