Re: [Freeipmi-users] freeipmi-0.2.3 on FreeBSD (from 6.2-release on amd64) failing to probe IPMI device

[Anand Babu]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:08:35PM +0530, Tejram Meena wrote:
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| I have installed the latest Freeipmi-0.2.3 from packages available
| for 6.2-release for FreeBSD (amd64) with guile-1.6.8 as its
| dependency.
| 
| Machine Info:
| Manufacturer: IBM
| Product Name: eserver xSeries 336 -[883715U]-
| Processor Information
|         Socket Designation: Socket 1 CPU 1
|         Type: Central Processor
|         Family: Xeon
|         Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
| IPMI Device Information
|         Interface Type: KCS (Keyboard Control Style)
|         Specification Version: 1.5
|         I2C Slave Address: 0x10
|         NV Storage Device: Not Present
|         Base Address: 0x0000000000000CA8 (I/O)
|         Register Spacing: 32-bit Boundaries
| 
| Dmesg Info
| ipmi0: <System Management BIOS> at iomem
| 0xfdfe0-0xfdffe,0xf5faa-0xf6861 on isa0
| ipmi0: SMBIOS Version: 2.03, revision: 2.03
| ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca8 alignment 0x4 on isa
| ipmi0: IPMI device rev. 0, firmware rev. 1.81, version 1.5
| ipmi0: Number of channels 4
| ipmi0: Attached watchdog
| 
| On running ipmi-locate on the above machine:
| $ipmi-locate 
| Probing KCS device using SMBIOS... FAILED
| 
| Probing SMIC device using SMBIOS... FAILED
| 
| Probing BT device using SMBIOS... FAILED
| 
| Probing SSIF device using SMBIOS... FAILED
| 
| Probing KCS device using ACPI... FAILED
| 
| Probing SMIC device using ACPI... FAILED
| 
| Probing BT device using ACPI... FAILED
| 
| Probing SSIF device using ACPI... FAILED
| 
| Probing KCS device using PCI... FAILED
| 
| Probing SMIC device using PCI... FAILED
| 
| Probing BT device using PCI... FAILED
| 
| Probing SSIF device using PCI... FAILED
| 
| KCS device default values:
| IPMI Version: 1.5
| IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
| IPMI locate driver: 0
| IPMI interface: KCS
| BMC I2C device: (null)
| BMC I/O base address: CA2
| Register space: 1
| 
| SMIC device default values:
| IPMI Version: 1.5
| IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
| IPMI locate driver: 0
| IPMI interface: SMIC
| BMC I2C device: (null)
| BMC I/O base address: CA9
| Register space: 1
| 
| BT device default values:
| 
| SSIF device default values:
| IPMI Version: 1.5
| IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
| IPMI locate driver: 0
| IPMI interface: SSIF
| BMC I2C device: /dev/i2c-0
| BMC SMBUS slave address: 42
| Register space: 1
| 
| Although the machine has KCS, but ipmi-locate fail to probe IPMI
| device Cann't figure out where the problem lies.
| 
| Thanks
| Tejram Meena
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Can you please try 0.3.0 release. 0.2.3 is pretty old. Also GNU
FreeIPMI has its own drivers. You will have to unload kernel based
drivers before running the tools. I don't have experience with FreeBSD
system. 

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