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. > > _______________________________________________ > Freeipmi-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://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] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
