<ESC><Ctrl><E> for Baseboard management doesn't work.

[Matthew Schumacher]

List,

I have a bunch of 1950's in a headless configuration.  I have console 
access to them, and need to change the IPMI IP address but I can't get 
<ESC>+<ctrl-e> or <ESC>+<CTRL>+<E> to let me into the baseboard 
management controller on boot.  <ESC><2> lets me into the bios just 
fine, and <ESC>+<CTRL-R> also lets me into the raid controller bios.

Thinking this might be a bug I upgraded the bios to 2.3.1 but that 
causes it to display a bunch of ANSI trash on the screen right in the 
middle of posting.

I've tried both ANSI and VT100.  I've also tried minicom on linux 
directly connected via null modem cable as well as telnet to a serial 
console switch.

At this point I don't see any way to make this work.  Anyone at dell 
have any ideas how I can get into the baseboard controller without 
hooking up a VGA/keyboard console to each one?

Thanks,
schu