On Monday 14 March 2005 02:32 pm, Jeff wrote: > <posted this to -questions too but thought the nic component made > it worth posting to -net> > > on a 5.3 amd64 system. anyone have any luck or know anything about > this? i can query variables right up until the point where the > kernel loads, then nothing. ibm is saying this can be caused by > the actual nic driver (the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) > shares the network interface); the system uses a Broadcom BCM5704C > Dual gig adapter: > > bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003> > mem 0xfe000000-0xfe00ffff,0xfe010000-0xfe01ffff irq 24 at device > 1.0 on pci2
Does 'in-band' mode work for you? Try FreeIPMI to check: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/ http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/freeipmi/ > anyone have any idea why this may be the case? unfortunately for > me and others here, the inability to remotely manage boxes > (console/power cycle/detect drive failures/etc) via ipmi will be a > deal breaker in our push for FBSD in our fleet (couple hundred) of > dual proc amd64 IBM e325 servers. SuSE here we come > (unwillingly)... BTW, SuSE won't work for you: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0532.html Jung-uk Kim > thx _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
