OpenIPMI on PE4600?

[Edgar Matzinger]

Hello list,

  question: has anyone of you managed (how?)to run OpenIPMI and thus OMSA
on a PE4600? When I try to install the ipmi_si kernel module, modprobe
hangs (for a number of days if left alone...) But according to
http://linux.dell.com/ipmi.shtml, it should be possible to run OpenIPMI
on a PE4600 using BT. When I run dmidecode, an IPMI resource is listed:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/dmidecode | grep -A 9 IPMI
IPMI Device Information
	Interface Type: BT (Block Transfer)
	Specification Version: 1.0
	I2C Slave Address: 0x10
	NV Storage Device: Not Present
	Base Address: 0x00000000000000E4 (I/O)
	Register Spacing: Successive Byte Boundaries
	Interrupt Polarity: Active High
	Interrupt Trigger Mode: Edge
	Interrupt Number: f
$

But when I try to load ipmi_si, modprobe hangs (with or without arguments:

# modprobe ipmi_si type="bt" ports="0xe4" irqs=15
#

The syslog reports:

# grep -i ipmi /var/log/messages
messages:Apr  2 15:44:24 nlxth001 kernel: ipmi device interface
messages:Apr  2 15:45:00 nlxth001 kernel: IPMI System Interface driver.
messages:Apr  2 15:45:00 nlxth001 kernel: ipmi_si: Trying hardcoded-
specified bt state machine at mem address 0xe4, slave address 0x0, irq 15
messages:Apr  2 15:45:00 nlxth001 kernel: ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified 
bt state machine at i/o address 0xe4, slave address 0x20, irq 15
messages:Apr  2 15:45:00 nlxth001 kernel: IPMI BT: req2rsp=10 secs 
retries=3

Note the different slave addresses mentioned by dmidecode and reported
by the kernel module! Even when I specify the slave address on the
modprobe commandline, the kernel reports slave address 0x0!

Versions:
Kernel: Linux nlxth001 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:48:34 EST
        2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
OpenIPMI: OpenIPMI-2.0.11-3.fc8

The same happens when I try to load the ipmi_si kernel module from
the srvadmin packages from the dell repository.

Regards, Edgar.
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