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


From: Al Chu
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] ACER FS1100A motherboard, nothing in /dev, ipmi_si fails to load.
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:40:14 -0800

Hi,

Actually, one more side thought.  When you run ipmi-locate, does it find
any IPMI devices on your system?

> [timestamp] ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)

I don't know the inner details of the kernel driver, but I'm wondering
if it cannot find a device, it doesn't know what to do.  It's possible
IPMI is fully supported on your system, but you can only communicate to
a predefined address.

Al

On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 10:12 -0800, Al Chu wrote:
> 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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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory




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