Re: [Freeipmi-users] help

[Al Chu]

Hey A.B.,

Seems like a decent enough idea, but I'm not sure the use case is large
enough to warrant the work.  Unless you want to do it?? :-)

Al

On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 11:31 -0800, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:
> Hi Al, I think if you put out a tiny bootable image with GNU FreeIPMI, it 
> will help a lot
> in quick testing and troubleshooting. We can always ask users to validate 
> from this image
> and identify quickly if this is a OS/driver issue or hardware issue.
> 
> Al Chu wrote:
> > Hi Abraham,
> > 
> > This error means (well, quite literally) that an inband device couldn't
> > be found.  For example, the proper device isn't loaded (i.e. /dev/ipmi)
> > or that the devices could not be probed via something like dmi.
> > 
> > It's possible the BMC on the motherboard is dead.  Do you have another
> > identical motherboard?  It may be interesting to see if the outputs of
> > ipmi-locate are identical.
> > 
> > Al
> > 
> > On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 11:35 +0100, Enghy Ábrahám wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I was looking for information about this error on google without success.
> >> It was working for almost a week long and now giving this error.
> >> My system is: FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 on IBM x346
> >>
> >> #ipmi-sensors
> >> could not find inband device
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Abraham
> >>
> >>
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> 
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