On 10/4/2006 4:00 PM, Al Chu wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 15:40 -0400, Eric A. Hall wrote: >> My Tyan S5162 with M3291 IPMI is just as flaky. If the machine is on then >> IPMI works fine. If I power off the machine with one method, then IPMI >> will usually continue working, but if I power it off with another method, >> then IPMI connectivity will disappear altogether. > > For several NIC drivers, the issue is that the driver is put into a poor > state, typically Wake-on-Lan mode. We fixed the problem here by just > commenting that section out of the driver, effectively leaving the NIC > in the same state that it would be in if the machine were turned on. > > The problem addressed by the original poster is likely a different > problem, since after a kernel crash, I don't believe the shutdown > procedures for the driver will ever be called.
It's not driver-specific here either, since one of my tested shutdown methods is "yank the cord", and that one always fails -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
