Hi Dennis > Well, I was finally able to get this working on the 2881. > Unfortunately I am not 100% certain of what the fix was. I think that > the 1.74 firmware version as shipped on the Tyan CD was not identical > to the 1.74 firmware version as linked from the how-to on the list. I > tried to use the CD version as the systems I have, have no floppy > drives, but once I removed the IPMI card and tried it from a system > with a floppy drive, I was able to flash it and get rid of the > previous message. >
Thanks for information about IPMI on S2881/S2882 motherboard. > I also noticed that you have to use the Broadcom utility to set the IP > rather than the util.exe like the 2882 systems use. Once this was > done, the 2881 units are working with FreeIPMI. > This is known for Tyan S5350 motherboard, which is using broadcom network interface. Nowadays I don't have access to S2881 machine and I haven't tried with the latest BIOS/Firmware of S2881 motherboard. I will update the HOW-TO with your info. Thanks, Best Regards Bala -- Free as in Freedom http://www.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
