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

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

Thanks very much for the reply.

On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Al Chu wrote:

> ... OpenIPMI linux kernel driver notes here that could help:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/README.openipmi

Before mailing the list I saw those notes and tried the suggestion,
but unfortunately no luck.

mail5:~# >>> cat /proc/devices | grep ipmi
mail5:~# >>> modprobe ipmi_devintf
mail5:~# >>> cat /proc/devices | grep ipmi
252 ipmidev
mail5:~# >>> /bin/mknod /dev/ipmi0 c 252 0
mail5:~# >>> ls -l /dev/ipmi0 
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 252, 0 Jan 15 22:09 /dev/ipmi0
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

> ... 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.

mail5:~# >>> time ipmi-sensors
Caching SDR repository information: 
/root/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/sdr-cache-mail5.localhost
ipmi_sdr_cache_create: internal IPMI error

real    0m11.730s
user    0m0.220s
sys     0m0.156s

:(

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

Thanks for the pointer, I'll give it a try.

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73,
Ged.