Re: [Freeipmi-users] in-band failure on Suns

[Al Chu]

Hi Dave,

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 13:12 +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> I normally only do things out-of-band with freeipmi, but I've found that
> it doesn't work in-band on three different sorts of Sun (with which
> ipmitool is happy).  At least one case looks like a bug, but I'm
> wondering whether there's something I can do to make it work and what
> debugging information might be useful.

I'd love to get to the bottom of this and get it supported.  Is there
any chance you could compile the tar.gz off the website?
Run ./configure with the "--enable-debug" and "--enable-trace" options.
These will get us a ton more debug information.

In the meantime, I do have a sunbox, and the ipmi kernel driver does not
seem to work on that box, but I'm not sure if it is FreeIPMI or the
motherboard.  It seems the motherboard just doesn't like the kernel
driver for some reason.

> 
> These systems are running opensuse 10.3 (a 2.6.22.19-based kernel).  The
> ipmi_msghandler, ipmi_devintf, and ipmi_si modules are loaded in all
> cases.  I also tried unsuccessfully with the relevant i2c modules for
> SSIF.
> 
> bmc-info (without options) produces these errors:
> 
> x2200M2 (ELOM):
>  ipmi_cmd_get_device_id: driver timeout
> x4100 (ILOM 2):
>  ipmi_cmd_get_device_id: internal system error
> x4200M2 (ILOM 2):
>  could not find inband device

is there a /dev/ipmi* on your machine?

Al

> It works OK on our Supermicros (where the driver has to be loaded with
> "options ipmi_si type=kcs ports=0xca8 regspacings=4", in case that's
> relevant).
> 
> 
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Albert Chu
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