Roberto Nibali wrote: >>> Sounds sane to me. My overall opinion on eepro100 removal is that >>> we're not there yet. Rare problem cases remain where e100 fails >>> but eepro100 works, and it's older drivers so its low priority for >>> everybody. >>> >>> Needs to happen, though... >> >> It seems that several Tyan Opteron base system that were using IPMI >> add on card. the IPMI card share intel 100Mhz nic onboard. you need >> to use eepro100 instead of e100 otherwise the e100 will shutdown OOB >> (out of Band) connection for IPMI when shut down the OS. > > I find it hard to believe that something as common as IPMI in > conjunction with the IPMI technology wasn't tested in Intel's lab. > From my experience with Intel Server boards, onboard IPMI (all offered > versions) and e100/e1000 NICs, I've never ever experienced any > problems operating the BMC over the NIC. Also, I don't quite > understand you point about the "IPMI card sharing the 100Mbit/s NIC" > onboard? What exactly is shared?
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