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Thanks for the hint.

Since I couldn't find anything about slave address in my vendor's docs,
I tried with 0x20 address, but it seems that ipmi_si doesn't care about
 slave_addrs as a loading time parameter :(. I doublechecked openipmi
documentation(IPMI.txt), but unfortunately I was not able to find the
root of this issue.

# modprobe ipmi_si slave_addrs=0x20
FATAL: Error inserting ipmi_si
(/lib/modules/2.6.20/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko): No such device

IPMI System Interface driver.
ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine at i/o address 0x4e,
slave address 0x0, irq 0
ipmi_si: Interface detection failed
ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)


Cress, Andrew R wrote:
> It looks like the DMI information has been falsified.  It can't really
> be slave address 0x00, I don't think.  However, there is a good chance
> that it really does have some KCS BMC in it, if this section is
> populated.
> Perhaps your platform vendor can tell you what the REAL base address and
> slave address are (from a Technical Product Spec maybe), and then the
> openipmi driver can take those values as parameters.
> 
> Andy
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Gabor Ivanszky
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 10:22 AM
> To: Corey Minyard
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] ipmi driver supported BMC's
> 
> I'm not sure whether there is a BMC in the machine or not. HP
> specifications about this are a little confusing.
> 
> Following output of dmidecode doesn't mean on it's own that there is a
> BMC available?
> 
> #dmidecode
> Handle 0x002B, DMI type 38, 16 bytes
> IPMI Device Information
>         Interface Type: KCS (Keyboard Control Style)
>         Specification Version: 1.5
>         I2C Slave Address: 0x00
>         NV Storage Device Address: 0
>         Base Address: 0x000000000000004E (I/O)
> 
> regards,
> Gabor
> 
> Corey Minyard wrote:
>>> Gabor Ivanszky wrote:
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>>>> Ok, so it is not really a development issue, sorry for bothering
>>>> you with that.
>>>>
>>> It may be a development issue.  Hard to say at this point.
>>>>> Usually the BIOS has something to talk to be BMC in the setup,
>>>>> is that working?
>>>>>
>>>> How can I check whether this works or not?
>>>>
>>> There's nothing specific I can say.  Most of the BIOSes I have on
>>> IPMI machines have some type of "system management" interface that
>>> lets you fetch the SELs and check certain things.  If your BIOS
>>> doesn't have that or it doesn't work, that's probably a good
>>> indication that the machine doesn't have a BMC or that something is
>>>  wrong with it.
>>>
>>> -Corey
>>>
> 

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