Re: [Freeipmi-users] Nuvoton WPCM450 SOL not working

[Al Chu]

Hey Kimitoshi,

Great.  I'll make sure that this fix is in the next release of FreeIPMI.
For the time being, can you live w/ the beta release?

Al

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:16 +0900, Kimitoshi Takahashi wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.
> Both worked fine.
> I can get getty prompt on ttyS2.
> 
> Here are the outputs.
> address@hidden:~/SRC$ /usr/ccmp/sbin/ipmiconsole --version
> ipmiconsole - 0.7.15.beta0
> 
> address@hidden:~/SRC$ /usr/ccmp/sbin/ipmiconsole -h 192.168.20.199 -u ADMIN 
> -p ADMIN 
> [SOL established]
> 
> Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 lenny64 ttyS2
> 
> lenny64 login: 
> [closing the connection]
> 
> 
> address@hidden:~/SRC$ /usr/ccmp/sbin/ipmiconsole --version
> ipmiconsole - 0.7.15.beta1
> Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
> Copyright (C) 2006-2007 The Regents of the University of California.
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
> the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
> 
> address@hidden:~/SRC$ /usr/ccmp/sbin/ipmiconsole -h 192.168.20.199 -u ADMIN 
> -p ADMIN -W solstatus
> [SOL established]
> 
> Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 lenny64 ttyS2
> 
> lenny64 login: 
> [closing the connection]
> 
> I still cann't get POST messages and BIOS output through SOL channel.
> It seems the BIOS is not redirecting Console output to COM3, which is 
> redirected to LAN.
> But I think it certainly is a BIOS issue, not of freeipmi.
> 
> I'll ask supermicro about this.
> 
> Thank you very much for your help.
> 
> Best regards,
> Kimitoshi Takahashi
> 
> > Hi Kimitoshi,
> > 
> > I went ahead and made a workaround option.  PLMK if it works for you.
> > 
> > http://*ftp.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-0.7.15.beta1.tar.gz
> > 
> > the workaround is "solstatus" so you can do:
> > 
> > ipmiconsole -h host -u user -p password -W solstatus
> > 
> > to try it out.
> > 
> > Al
> > 
> > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:59 -0800, Al Chu wrote:
> >> Hi Takahashi,
> >>
> >> Thanks for the debug output.  It seems that this motherboard does not
> >> like the "Get Activation Status" command..
> >>
> >> FreeIPMI does implement SOL differently that ipmitool.  Before
> >> activating SOL, FreeIPMI makes sure that SOL is not in use (or if
> >> appropriate flags/options are set, to kill a previous SOL session).
> >> Ipmitool goes ahead and activiates, assuming deactivation on the command
> >> line from the user if necessary.
> >>
> >> I will e-mail somebody at Supermicro that I know, and see if he can
> >> reproduce and maybe get a fix for the long term.
> >>
> >> In the short term, here is a test tar.gz that removes the "Get SOL
> >> Activation Status" stage of the SOL protocol.  Could you perhaps check
> >> it out and see if ipmiconsole works?  If so, I can implement an
> >> appropriate workaround for this situation.
> >>
> >> http://**ftp.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/qa-release/freeipmi-0.7.15.beta0.tar.gz
> >>
> >> Al
> >>
> 
-- 
Albert Chu
address@hidden
Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory