Hey Dave, I think I may have fixed a problem that may be the problem for atleast one of the problems you listed below. Could you check out this tar.gz and let me know that it works?
http://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-0.7.10.beta0.tar.gz The appropriate changelog entry. 2009-05-19 Albert Chu <[email protected]> * common/src/toolcommon/tool-common.c: Attempt OpenIPMI and SunBMC drivers first, since they cannot be discovered via probing, and to avoid accidently using the KCS driver first. Thanks, Al On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 10:22 -0700, Al Chu wrote: > 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). > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freeipmi-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http:// lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users > > -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
