Poweredge 2850 with CentOS 5.1 x64 - various management software components broken

[Brett Dikeman]

I have a fresh install of CentOS 5.1 x64 running on a Poweredge 2850;
A06, BMC current version (1.7-something?  Don't have it handy.)  PERC4
Di has the current firmware.  I added the requisite yum software and
hardware repositories and installed OpenManager (three dozen packages?
 Yeesh.)

There are a slew of problems;  virtually nothing Dell-supplied works properly.

-The manual BIOS update downloaded off the dell website took THREE
tries to successfully update to A06.

-The BIOS/firmware updater utility supplied on the downloadable DVD is
a pathetic joke.  I wasted an hour trying to get it to work- and this
included installing the very specific version of libstdc++ that it
wanted (than you for documenting that dependency, Del!)  The CLI
version kept crashing.  The X11 gui wasn't much better- it at least
found the updates, but when it attempted to install them, complained
about libstdc++, demanding a version which was already installed.

-some sort of driver tries to load and fails with "DRAC4 probe: DRAC4
pci device not found")

-"mptctl_do_mpt_command - Target ID out of bounds." appears numerous
times during boot and immediately after init scripts finish loading

-dsm_sa_datamgr3 segfaults shortly after loading.

-OpenManager's web interface refuses to load properly in MacOS X's
Safari browser (can't even get a login screen) and half-loads in
Firefox (get a login screen, then upon supplying credentials, I get a
three-blank-frame display and Firefox never stops trying to load the
page.)  I don't have a machine with Internet Explorer handy.

I see from more googling that some of this may be caused by missing 32
bit libraries?  I can't find a list of RPMs I should install to fix
the problem.  Why is "supply 64 bit binaries" Rocket Science?

This is Dell's idea of Linux "support"?