IPMI doesn't work...

[Jeff]

<posted this to -questions too but thought the nic component made it 
worth posting to -net>

on a 5.3 amd64 system.  anyone have any luck or know anything about 
this?  i can query variables right up until the point where the kernel 
loads, then nothing.  ibm is saying this can be caused by the actual nic 
driver (the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) shares the network 
interface); the system uses a Broadcom BCM5704C Dual gig adapter:

bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003> mem 
0xfe000000-0xfe00ffff,0xfe010000-0xfe01ffff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci2

anyone have any idea why this may be the case?  unfortunately for me and 
others here, the inability to remotely manage boxes (console/power 
cycle/detect drive failures/etc) via ipmi will be a deal breaker in our 
push for FBSD in our fleet (couple hundred) of dual proc amd64 IBM e325 
servers.  SuSE here we come (unwillingly)...

thx