On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 18:59, 'Bryan Vyhmeister' wrote: > (running 5.4, by the way). The ipmi(4) driver shows up in my dmesg but > as: > > ipmi at mainbus0 not configured > > A few years back I had an X7SPA-HF or similar board in the barebones > system you can buy but I don't have a dmesg from it readily accessible. > In any case, ipmi(4) is not working on my systems.
The ipmi driver is disabled by default because it does bad things on some systems. If you don't go out of your way to enable it, the not configured line is all you'll see.