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

[Amos Shapir]

Thanks Al & ipmi users,

After going through all 530 pages of Intel's documentation, I found that one
of the main differences between I210 and I211 is that the latter does NOT
have NC-SI and MCTP capabilities; that's a good reason for not responding...

We are now trying workarounds, possibly replacing the NIC to one which does
include an I210 chip.

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 7:16 PM Al Chu <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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,
>
>

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