IPMI doesn't work...

[Michael Vince]

Just out of interest has any one got serial console to work with this 
IPMI stuff?
I was looking at regular 9pin serial alternatives since Dell machines 
normally only have 1 serial port and I prefer 2.

Regards,
Mike

Bruce M Simpson wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Jeff wrote:
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>>I don't think it's the case of the OS turning off the NIC.  We can 
>>access/monitor/control the chassis via the BMC fine through the bios 
>>assigned IP address when the computer is off, and when it is booting, 
>>but lose control when the kernel loads (the bios assigned ip address is, 
>>of course, different from what OS assigns).  It seems odd to me how the 
>>BMC shares the NIC, but maybe this is normal...I'm new to IPMI.
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>I can only speak for looking at the Intel gigabit chip datasheets and
>our em(4) driver somewhat, but there are registers which control the
>'pass through' which IPMI uses. It could be that the bge driver is
>unaware of the registers Broadcom added to support IPMI.
>
>In this case we'd need to find out what they are and teach the driver
>not to meddle with them.
>
>Regards,
>BMS
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