Confirmed; I see it here too (on a Dell 1850) with 2.6.15-25-amd64-server. This worked with the IPMI kernel modules in Breezy (and ipmitool worked fine, too):
Jul 5 11:02:34 yt kernel: [11342266.490239] ipmi message handler version v33 Jul 5 11:02:34 yt kernel: [11342266.491170] IPMI System Interface driver version v33, KCS version v33, SMIC version v33, BT version v33 Jul 5 11:02:34 yt kernel: [11342266.491456] ipmi_si: Found SMBIOS-specified state machine at I/O address 0xca8, slave address 0x20 Jul 5 11:02:34 yt kernel: [11342266.704393] IPMI kcs interface initialized But with Dapper's kernel: Jul 5 11:00:09 hiro kernel: [ 1431.981776] ipmi message handler version 38.0 Jul 5 11:00:09 hiro kernel: [ 1431.983029] IPMI System Interface driver. Jul 5 11:00:09 hiro kernel: [ 1431.983048] ipmi_si: Trying "kcs" at I/O port 0xca2 Jul 5 11:00:09 hiro kernel: [ 1432.000665] ipmi_si: Trying "smic" at I/O port 0xca9 Jul 5 11:00:09 hiro kernel: [ 1432.016620] ipmi_si: Trying "bt" at I/O port 0xe4 <hang - didn't bother to wait for the last two lines deubeulyou mentioned> Tore -- dapper rc: 'modprobe ipmi_si' hangs on dell 2850 https://launchpad.net/bugs/47528 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs