Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmi_open_inband no such device on Ibm e325

[Albert Chu]

Hey Rene,

I remember that thread.  The IBM lancfg utility should be fine.  What we
found was that there was a bug in the IBM IPMI firmware.  So I had to
write a workaround in 'ipmipower' to work around the problem (the
--force-permsg-auth flag) [1].  I don't believe the problem should exist
in the other FreeIPMI over-LAN tools.  Please let us know if there are
problems though.

Al

[1] - That does remind me though, I need to re-harass IBM about this bug :-)

--
Albert Chu
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925-422-5311
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


----- Original Message -----
From: Rene Salmon <address@hidden>
Date: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:16 am
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmi_open_inband no such device on Ibm e325

> Hi,
> 
> For the time being I would like to manage the machine with out-band 
> IPMI.  I just updated the firmware and need I need to set the IP 
> and 
> password for the BMC.  I can use the IBM IPMI config utility 
> (lancfg) to 
> do this but I found this post that hints to a problem if I use the 
> lancfg tool.
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freeipmi-users/2005-11/msg00017.html
> 
> Should I just use lancfg to set the ip/passwd or is there a better 
> way 
> more freeimpi friendly?
> 
> Thanks
> Rene
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Albert Chu wrote:
> > Hey Rene,
> > 
> > Thanks.  That verifies atleast why it's failing.  
> > 
> > /* At this point we only support SYSTEM_IO, i.e. inb/outb style IO.
> >    If we cant find the bass address, we better exit. -- Anand 
> Babu */
> >    if (dev->io.inband.locate_info.addr_space_id !=
> > IPMI_ADDRESS_SPACE_ID_SYSTEM_IO)
> >      {
> >        errno = ENODEV;
> >        return (-1);
> >      }
> > 
> > The IBM's use memory mapped io.  This is the first machine (that 
> I've> seen) with memory mapped rather than port based i/o for in-
> band IPMI.   
> > 
> > A.B., Bala I'll leave this to you to follow up on.  Needless to say,
> > this needs to be fixed.  I think logically it shouldn't be too 
> hard to
> > add?  Just need to map some INB/OUTB calls into read/writes?  I 
> could> give it a shot, but I lack a machine to test on.
> > 
> > Al
> > 
> > --
> > Albert Chu
> > address@hidden
> > 925-422-5311
> > Computer Scientist
> > High Performance Systems Division
> > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Rene Salmon <address@hidden>
> > Date: Friday, March 24, 2006 10:18 am
> > Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmi_open_inband no such device on 
> Ibm e325
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Thanks for the help. Here is the output of ipmi-locate.
> >>
> >> Probing KCS device using SMBIOS... done
> >> IPMI Version: 1.5
> >> IPMI locate driver: SMBIOS
> >> IPMI locate driver: 0
> >> IPMI interface: KCS
> >> BMC I2C device: (null)
> >> BMC memory base address: CA2
> >> Register space: 0
> >>
> >> Probing SMIC device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> >>
> >> Probing BT device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> >>
> >> Probing SSIF device using SMBIOS... FAILED
> >>
> >> Probing KCS device using ACPI... FAILED
> >>
> >> Probing SMIC device using ACPI... FAILED
> >>
> >> Probing BT device using ACPI... FAILED
> >>
> >> Probing SSIF device using ACPI... FAILED
> >>
> >> Probing KCS device using PCI... FAILED
> >>
> >> Probing SMIC device using PCI... FAILED
> >>
> >> Probing BT device using PCI... FAILED
> >>
> >> Probing SSIF device using PCI... FAILED
> >>
> >> KCS device default values:
> >> IPMI Version: 1.5
> >> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> >> IPMI locate driver: 0
> >> IPMI interface: KCS
> >> BMC I2C device: (null)
> >> BMC I/O base address: CA2
> >> Register space: 1
> >>
> >> SMIC device default values:
> >> IPMI Version: 1.5
> >> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> >> IPMI locate driver: 0
> >> IPMI interface: SMIC
> >> BMC I2C device: (null)
> >> BMC I/O base address: CA9
> >> Register space: 1
> >>
> >> BT device default values:
> >>
> >> SSIF device default values:
> >> IPMI Version: 1.5
> >> IPMI locate driver: DEFAULT
> >> IPMI locate driver: 0
> >> IPMI interface: SSIF
> >> BMC I2C device: /dev/i2c-0
> >> BMC SMBUS slave address: 20
> >> Register space: 1
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Albert Chu wrote:
> >>> Hi Rene,
> >>>
> >>> Could you run the ipmi-locate tool so we can see what exactly 
> is 
> >> on that
> >>> machine?
> >>>
> >>> Al
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Albert Chu
> >>> address@hidden
> >>> 925-422-5311
> >>> Computer Scientist
> >>> High Performance Systems Division
> >>> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: Rene Salmon <address@hidden>
> >>> Date: Friday, March 24, 2006 9:54 am
> >>> Subject: [Freeipmi-users] ipmi_open_inband no such device on 
> Ibm 
> >> e325> 
> >>>> Hi list,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am very new to IPMI and I am hoping to get some help here.
> >>>> I have an IBM e325 server on which I am trying to run freeimpi 
> >> and 
> >>>> I am 
> >>>> getting the following error when I try to run bmc-info:
> >>>>
> >>>> src/freeipmi# bmc-info
> >>>> ipmi_open_inband(): No such device
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Here is what i did:
> >>>> downloaded and installed these packages on a SuSe-9.3 e325.
> >>>>
> >>>> freeipmi-0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
> >>>> freeipmi-utils-0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
> >>>> freeipmi-devel-0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
> >>>> freeipmi-fish-0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
> >>>>
> >>>> After updating the BMC firmware and the BIOS on the server I 
> set 
> >> up 
> >>>> the 
> >>>> following in BIOS settings.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> * Advanced Setup
> >>>>   - Console Redirection
> >>>>     - Console Redirection: On-board COM A
> >>>>     - Baud Rate: 9600
> >>>>     - Console Type: vt100
> >>>>     - Flow Control: CTS/RTS
> >>>>     - Console connection: Direct
> >>>>     - Continue C.R. after POST: On
> >>>>   - Baseboard Management Controller
> >>>>     - Change COM port Setting: Yes
> >>>>     - COM post on BMC: IPMB
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Any idea as to what might be the problem?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you
> >>>>
> >>>> Rene
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -- 
> >>>> -
> >>>> --
> >>>>         Rene Salmon
> >>>>         Tulane University
> >>>>         Center for Computational Science
> >>>>         Richardson Building 310
> >>>>         New Orleans, LA 70118
> >>>>         http://www.ccs.tulane.edu
> >>>>         Tel 504-862-8393
> >>>>         Fax 504-862-8392
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>>
> >> -- 
> >> -
> >> --
> >>         Rene Salmon
> >>         Tulane University
> >>         Center for Computational Science
> >>         Richardson Building 310
> >>         New Orleans, LA 70118
> >>         http://www.ccs.tulane.edu
> >>         Tel 504-862-8393
> >>         Fax 504-862-8392
> >>
> >>
> 
> -- 
> -
> --
>         Rene Salmon
>         Tulane University
>         Center for Computational Science
>         Richardson Building 310
>         New Orleans, LA 70118
>         http://www.ccs.tulane.edu
>         Tel 504-862-8393
>         Fax 504-862-8392
> 
>