IPMI doesn't work...

[Julian Elischer]

I use IPMI with intel boards using the fxp driver.
it seems to work ok..
The only problem I have seen its that is IS possible for the OS to turn 
off the
NIC so that IPMI can't be reached..
Usually during a  'suspend' or similar.
On a server you wouldn't do that however.

Jeff wrote:

> <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
>
>
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