Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-09-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday 30 August 2008 11:56:01 am Jonathan Bond-Caron wrote: > On Fri Aug 29 11:24 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > If your BIOS doesn't tell us about the IPMI BMC via ACPI or SMBIOS, > > you can try using hints (I've seen machines thave a BMC, but the BIOS > > doesn't bother to tell you abo

RE: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-30 Thread Jonathan Bond-Caron
On Fri Aug 29 03:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:17:17AM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> Curiously, IPMI shares the ethernet ports with the onboard ethernet >> controllers without FreeBSD's knowledge. It does use a different MAC >> address. It is also apparently ca

RE: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-30 Thread Jonathan Bond-Caron
On Fri Aug 29 11:24 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > If your BIOS doesn't tell us about the IPMI BMC via ACPI or SMBIOS, > you can try using hints (I've seen machines thave a BMC, but the BIOS > doesn't bother to tell you about it). Dell boxes I've seen have KCS > at the default address, so you can

Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 29 August 2008 01:33:36 am Jonathan Bond-Caron wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a dell 1750 server with ERA/O card running on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE > > According to Dell, the ERA card supports ipmi 1.0: > > http://linux.dell.com/ipmi.shtml > > But so far no luck with freebsd :/ If you

Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Bob Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only problem I have seen on em is that by default the driver resets the > phy during boot which confuses IPMI; if a SOL console session is active, the > driver is signalled not to do the reset. Same here. The 1950-III

Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-29 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 29 Aug 2008, at 08:44, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...]That said, the feature you're referring to (IPMI piggybacking on top of an existing NIC on the mainboard) is called "ASF" from a NIC driver perspective. In implementations I've looked at, the interfaces really are distinct hardware

Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:17:17AM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > Curiously, IPMI shares the ethernet ports with the onboard ethernet > controllers without FreeBSD's knowledge. It does use a different MAC > address. It is also apparently capable of using vlans (haven't tested this > yet). I'm

Re: IPMI and Dell ERA/O

2008-08-28 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
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