Re: [Freeipmi-users] ACER FS1100A motherboard, nothing in /dev, ipmi_si fails to load.

[Al Chu]

Hi,

I'm not entirely sure what your problem may be.  I have some additional
OpenIPMI linux kernel driver notes here that could help:
http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/README.openipmi

You may also find mailing the openipmi users list more helpful than this
list.

However, if you're using the FreeIPMI tools (i.e. ipmi-sensors or
ipmi-sel), you normally don't need to load the IPMI kernel driver.
FreeIPMI's tools implement a driver in userspace that can work as long
as you are root.

Al

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 09:59 -0800, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> First post.  First time using IPMI.  I have no clue what I'm doing.
> 
> I have an Acer Altos G310 server which has a FS1100A motherboard.
> The machine is running Debian 'Squeeze' which allegedly provides IPMI
> support.  All I want to do is log some temperatures.
> 
> # dmidecode 2.9
> SMBIOS 2.3 present.
> 62 structures occupying 1884 bytes.
> Table at 0x000FAC40.
> 
> Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes
> BIOS Information
>       Vendor: Acer
>       Version: QAIC0996
>       Release Date: 09/30/2004
> ...
> Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes
> System Information
>       Manufacturer: Acer
>       Product Name: Altos G310
> ...
> Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
> Base Board Information
>       Manufacturer: Acer
>       Product Name: FS1100A
> ...
> Handle 0x003C, DMI type 38, 16 bytes
> IPMI Device Information
>       Interface Type: Unknown
>       Specification Version: 1.5
>       I2C Slave Address: 0x42
>       NV Storage Device: Not Present
>       Base Address: 0x0000000000000000 (Memory-mapped)
> 
> The full output of dmidecode is available here if requried:
> http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/dmi_decode_output
> 
> The ipmi_devintf module loads without complaint and this
> loads the impi_msghandler module automaticall but no ipmi* device is
> created in /dev although there is an entry in /proc/devices.  Module
> ipmi_si fails to load.
> 
> mail5:~# >>> uname -a
> Linux mail5 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 04:23:54 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
> mail5:~# >>> ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/
> total 152
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13020 Nov  3 09:16 ipmi_devintf.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42036 Nov  3 09:16 ipmi_msghandler.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12232 Nov  3 09:16 ipmi_poweroff.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50480 Nov  3 09:16 ipmi_si.ko
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24960 Nov  3 09:16 ipmi_watchdog.ko
> mail5:~# >>> modprobe ipmi_devintf
> mail5:~# >>> modprobe ipmi_si
> FATAL: Error inserting ipmi_si 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko): No such 
> device
> mail5:~# >>> lsmod | grep ipmi
> ipmi_devintf            4029  0 
> ipmi_msghandler        22871  1 ipmi_devintf
> mail5:~# >>> dmesg | tail -n 2
> [timestamp] IPMI System Interface driver.
> [timestamp] ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
> mail5:~# >>> cat /proc/devices | grep ipmi
> 252 ipmidev
> mail5:~# >>> ls -l /dev | grep ipmi
> mail5:~# >>>
> 
> I have tried to load the ipmi_si module using assorted manually set
> parameters and met only failure.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?
> 
> --
> 
> 73,
> Ged.
> 
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