On 2010-11-30 14:46:46 (+0100), Philip Paeps <phi...@freebsd.org> wrote: > I have an HP ml110 g6 with an ilo100 remote management card. I can ssh or > telnet to the card and I can use ipmi. Regardless of how I access the card, > I have the same problem with the serial console: I see data from the console > to me, but the console doesn't see characters I send.
Thanks to Garrett and Don for the suggestions. Unfortunately, neither of them worked. While I was sitting with the hardware though, I did manage to get it to work eventually. As expected it was really weird and nothing to do with ipmitool. In the BIOS configuration, under "Advanced" -> "I/O Device Configuration", there is an option to set the "Embedded Serial Port Mode". By default, this goes to "System". The only option here which actually works is "BMC". With all other options, the console on ipmi is read-only. Only downside of this is that now the physical serial port of the machine points at the BMC console, and not at the system UART. Now that SOL works however, I can live with that. So this smells a lot like a firmware issue. Looking at the HP firmware updates, the "Embedded Serial Port Mode" option is reasonably new (like my machine) and if someone from HP reads this post, it may well disappear in a future version. :-) Best, - Philip -- Philip Paeps Calm down ... it is only ones and zeros phi...@freebsd.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
