Firmware update

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:16:08AM -0400, Eugene Pik wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> After the latest yum update on Poweredge1950 CentOS 4.5 x86_64 (updated
> dell-bmcflash.x86_64 0:1.4.3-1.el4 dell-lsiflash.x86_64 0:1.4.5-1.el4
> firmware-addon-dell.x86_64 0:1.4.6-1.el4 firmware-tools.noarch
> 0:1.4.3-1.el4) the update_firmware utility throwing out following
> error message:
> 
> # update_firmware
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/update_firmware", line 188, in ?
>     sys.exit( main() )
>   File "/usr/bin/update_firmware", line 67, in main
>     firmwaretools.clifuncs.getConfig(ini, configLocations)
> NameError: global name 'configLocations' is not defined

Hm. Not sure how that slipped through my testing. 
 (to fix, change 'configLocations' to
 'firmwaretools.clifuncs.configLocations')

I'm going to do another release tomorrow. I think the GUI is almost
ready, I just have to test it on a few machines at work.
--
Michael

> Regards,
> Eugene Pik
> 
> 
> On 8/20/07, Michael_E_Brown at dell.com <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> >
> > http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/Firmware_Tools
> > http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware
> >
> > Supported: BIOS, PERC4, PERC5, SAS5
> >
> > BMC is not currently working and is disabled. I'm working on it this week
> > and *may* have some update sometime this week.
> > --
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com on behalf of Jonathan Selander
> > Sent: Mon 8/20/2007 2:54 AM
> > To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> > Subject: Firmware update
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to upgrade my firmware in order to have functional BMC. What
> > is the easiest way to do that? I remember reading about it here, but
> > can't find any of those discussions.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
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