On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Philip Paeps <phi...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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. :-)
On Dells at least there are 2 COMs, and one just devotes a virtual
COM (COM2 is what we use) for IPMI SOL console redirection. The other
is used for the real hardware interface on the outside of the box.
So the HP folks might need to create a virtual interface and
redirect it to another COM port.
HTH,
-Garrett
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