OpenIPMI in Lenny is mysterious to me.
Hello list,
I am admittedly hopelessly noob with IPMI, though I don't think I'm too
noob with Linux in general, I apologise if any of my questions are
elementary. I've googled this ad nauseum so I've come here for some
help with this.
After installing ipmitool and openipmi in Lenny I am faced with a
perplexing issue. From the get-go, I could not achieve the results I
was seeking.
Time to start ipmi:
# modprobe -a ipmi-si ipmi-devintf
which results with the following STDERR:
WARNING: Error inserting ipmi_devintf
(/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.ko):
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
Then, in dmesg I see this:
[1012115.045436] ipmi message handler version 39.2
[1012115.048311] IPMI System Interface driver.
[1012115.048315] ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine at
i/o address 0xca2, slave address 0x20, irq 0
[1012115.227703] ipmi: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x000157, prod_id:
0x003e, dev_id: 0x21)
[1012115.227703] IPMI kcs interface initialized
[1012115.235704] ipmi_devintf: Unknown symbol compat_alloc_user_space
# lsmod|grep ipmi returns:
ipmi_si 43628 0
ipmi_msghandler 38520 1 ipmi_si
It looks like ipmi_devintf doesn't get loaded and from what I've seen in
the scarce examples that I've found, it should be loaded in order for
IPMI to function, as it creates the related device under /dev.
Running ipmitool to test functionality returns this:
# ipmitool sdr
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No
such file or directory
Get Device ID command failed
Unable to open SDR for reading
At this point, I sit confused, as the documentation is sparse and I'm
unsure if this is a problem with hardware detection that the module is
attempting to run the ipmi layer on or if there is a problem with the
kernel in Lenny. Though, I'm surprised that the keywords "debian ipmi"
and "lenny ipmi" returns almost nothing useful or relevant in google.
Oh I suppose I should shoot out some facts:
Running Debian Lenny amd64, on an Intel S5520HCR motherboard.
If anyone has any experience with ipmi, I would certainly appreciate
some feedback.
TIA.
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