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[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:12:26AM -0700, Jesse Proudman wrote:
> To provide more information, the whole reason I am attempting to do  
> this is because the PowerEdge 850 has the orange blinking light on  
> the front and I need to know what's causing it.
> 
> I believe I've gotten IPMI to install into my kernal and load on boot.
> 
> [root at vsh1 dev]# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> ipmi_watchdog          14784  0
> ipmi_devintf            6148  0
> ipmi_si                28125  1
> ipmi_msghandler        40256  3 ipmi_watchdog,ipmi_devintf,ipmi_si
> <snip>
> 
> ---------
> 
> [root at vsh1 blueboxadmin]# /etc/init.d/ipmi start
> Starting ipmi drivers:                                     [FAILED]
> [root at vsh1 blueboxadmin]# modprobe ipmi_si addrs=0x0CA8
> Segmentation fault
> [root at vsh1 blueboxadmin]# modprobe ipmi_si addrs=0x0CA8
> [root at vsh1 blueboxadmin]# /etc/init.d/ipmi start
> Starting ipmi drivers:                                     [  OK  ]
> 
> ----------
> 
> /dev shows:
> crw-r--r--  1 root root 252,   0 Aug  2 08:52 ipmi0
> 
> ----------
> 
> /var/log/messages has various entries:
> Aug  2 08:45:04 vsh1 kernel: ipmi message handler version v32
> Aug  2 08:45:04 vsh1 kernel: IPMI System Interface driver version  
> v32, KCS version v32, SMIC version v32, BT version v32

driver v32 is quite old; the segfaults and oopses you're seeing are
due to such an old driver.  If you can upgrade to a more recent kernel
(say 2.6.17) or use a DKMSified driver for RHEL3, RHEL4, or SLES9 that
I've posted on http://linux.dell.com/ipmi.shtml, please do so.  Then
you can use ipmitool to get the event log.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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