PERC 4e Di firmware 522a

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:15:59PM -0500, Paul M. Dyer wrote:
> Thanks.   It works better now.   Where do I get dell-bmcflash?

Also, you can just 'up2date -i dell-bmcflash' and it should install. But
like I said in my earlier email, you dont really need it yet...
--
Michael

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael E Brown" <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com>
> To: "Paul M. Dyer" <pmdyer at ctgcentral2.com>
> Cc: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 5:57:06 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
> Subject: Re: PERC 4e Di firmware 522a
> 
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:50:18PM -0500, Paul M. Dyer wrote:
> > Thanks for the info.   I got along further.   It was necessary to delete everything in /var/spool/up2date and redo the wget commands.   All looked well until update_firmware, which had some python errors.   Please advise.
> 
> The errors are fine. The next version (to be released in the next couple
> days) supresses these messages. (That is why it says "caught and
> ignored."
> 
> You should have dell-bmcflash installed, which would (should?) get rid
> of those errors.
> 
> The "update_firmware" command wont actually (by design) update any
> firmware unless you pass "--yes".
> 
> I've been doing some work on the utilities lately to start making them a
> bit more user-friendly.
> --
> Michael
> 
> 
> > 
> > [root at lxprodas1 up2date]# update_firmware
> > 
> > Searching storage directory for available BIOS updates...
> > \       Checking: ware_ven_0x1028_dev_0x016d_version_a09/package.iniTraceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/repository.py", line 41, in makePackage
> >     module = __import__(pymod, globals(),  locals(), [])
> > ImportError: No module named dell_bmc.dell_bmc
> >  Exception caught and ignored.
> > -       Checking: ware_ven_0x1028_dev_0x016d_version_a09/package.iniTraceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/firmwaretools/repository.py", line 41, in makePackage
> >     module = __import__(pymod, globals(),  locals(), [])
> > ImportError: No module named dell_bmc.dell_bmc
> >  Exception caught and ignored.
> > 
> > Checking system_bios(ven_0x1028_dev_0x016d) - a06
> >         No update found
> > Checking pci_firmware(ven_0x1028_dev_0x0013_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x016d) - 522a
> >         Found Update: pci_firmware(ven_0x1028_dev_0x0013_subven_0x1028_subdev_0x016d) - 522d
> > 
> > Found out of date packages.
> > 
> > 
> > Please run the program with the '--yes' switch to enable BIOS update.
> >    UPDATE NOT COMPLETED!
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael E Brown" <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com>
> > To: "Paul M. Dyer" <pmdyer at ctgcentral2.com>
> > Cc: firmware-tools-devel at lists.us.dell.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:33:31 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
> > Subject: Re: PERC 4e Di firmware 522a
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:25:21PM -0500, Paul M. Dyer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Firmware version 522A show out of date on OMSA.   I installed the fireware repo, but I get no updates required.   Is this supported for my system?
> > 
> > Just tested 522D on one of my systems and it works fine for me.
> > 
> > > 
> > > PE-2850
> > > PERC 4e/Di
> > > 
> > > Below is the install session.   Sorry if this is too much detail.
> > 
> > You missed this:
> > 
> > # up2date --solvedeps=$(bootstrap_firmware -u)
> > 
> > This bootstraps the correct package set onto your system. Until you do
> > this, it wont know the RPM mapping to PCI devices.
> > --
> > Michael
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Paul Dyer
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [root at lxprodas1 up2date]# wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> > > Downloading GPG key: http://linux.dell.com//repo/firmware/RPM-GPG-KEY-fwupdate
> > >     Importing key into RPM.
> > > Installing dell-firmware-repository-1-2.noarch.rpm
> > > Done!
> > > [root at lxprodas1 up2date]# up2date -u
> > > http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?sys_ven_id=0x1028&sys_dev_id=0x016D&osname=el4&basearch=i386&repo_config=$repo_config&dellsysidpluginver=up2date
> > > using mirror: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/system.ven_0x1028.dev_0x016d/rh40
> > > http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/mirrors.pl?osname=el4&basearch=i386
> > > using mirror: http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/el4/i386
> > > http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?osname=el4&basearch=i386&repo_config=$repo_config&dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver
> > > using mirror: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/platform_independent/rh40
> > > http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/mirrors.pl?dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver
> > > using mirror: http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/cross-distro
> > > 
> > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-4...
> > > 
> > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-hw-specific-repository...
> > > 
> > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-unsupported-repository...
> > > 
> > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-hw-indep-repository...
> > > 
> > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dell-firmware-repository...
> > > 
> > > Fetching rpm headers...
> > > 
> > > Name                                    Version        Rel     
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > All packages are currently up to date
> > > 
> > > 
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