-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello,
in this case it seems that this machine doesn't have a BMC, so the issue is solved in this way. thanks for your time and your effort, Gabor Bela Lubkin wrote: > Gabor, > > HP's server machines do not have a BMC unless an optional > management daughterboard called "iLO2" is installed. If you have > the purchase manifest for the machine, check for that. > > When you reboot a machines with an iLO2, it displays BIOS messages > offering you to setup the iLO2. Reboot the machine as many times > as necessary for you to have carefully observed the entire BIOS > startup sequence: do you see any mention of iLO2? If not, no BMC > (which means it probably has a mistaken DMI table entry, Corey's > alternative #1 below). > > If it _does_ have an iLO2 then go into its setup, make sure IPMI > BMC is enabled, see if there are any other settings that might > affect HW recognition behavior. > >> Bela< > > -----Original Message----- From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gabor > Ivanszky Sent: Tue 2007-03-06 8:34 AM To: Corey Minyard Cc: > [email protected] Subject: Re: > [Openipmi-developer] ipmi driver supported BMC's > > I tried the kcs_detect() hack, and the driver hung at insertion > time. > > I also tried forcing type kcs, bt,smic combinating with different > I/O addresses(default 0xca2, and 0x4e from DMI) still no success > > so at last my bet is that there is no BMC in my machine. There is > no strong evidence, but the confusing specifications, and all the > stuff we tried makes me think this. > > many thanks for your help and your time, Gabor > > > Corey Minyard wrote: >> Unfortunately, this is a difficult issue and very hard to >> resolve. From what I can tell, it is one of the following >> problems: > >> 1. The machine does not actually have a BMC. A lot of these > machines >> have optional add-in cards, and maybe there is an error in the >> BIOS that always puts the DMI information in. 2. The machine has >> a BMC, but the DMI information is wrong. Since the slave address >> is bogus, this is probably the most > likely. The >> default address for IPMI is 0xca2 in the I/O space. Maybe that >> would work? Maybe it's not KCS? But it's only a guess. 3. The >> machine has a BMC at the given address, but there is > something >> wrong with the BMC or it's buggy and doesn't implement the state >> machine properly. You should be getting more information out of >> the kernel if this is the case, though. 4. There is a bug in the >> IPMI driver. Since the driver works with a very large number of >> machines, this is unlikely. > >> Looking at the error you are getting, that means the driver read >> a 0xff from the address given for the IPMI control port. The >> control port cannot ever be 0xff, so that generally means there >> is nothing there. You might having the kcs_detect() function in >> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_sm.c always return 0, but I doubt that >> will make a difference. > >> -Corey > >> Ivánszky Gábor wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> 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) >>> > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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