I have a Tyan S5510GM3NR motherboard that contains an IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) subsystem with a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) device. It's described here:
http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.aspx?ProductType=MB&pid=698&SKU=600000217 It came with the V1.03 BIOS, dated 07/27/2011. This BIOS contains a faulty ACPI table that describes the BMC serial port (COM3) incorrectly. Tyan has just released a new BIOS, V2.01c dated 08/16/2012, that corrects this error. It's available from Tyan support along with the flash upgrade software and instructions. To use IPMI with this motherboard, you need either the new BIOS or the workaround for bug 2560 that was integrated in July 2012 with changeset 13766:adffc698eaf5. Using both is fine too. To use IPMI with Supermicro or Tyan motherboards that include BMC devices, you need the fix for bug 1469 that was integrated in March 2012 with changeset 13659:57451298f940. OI release oi_151a2 or later includes this fix. The BMC serial port appears at /dev/ttyc . These motherboards include a dedicated network port for the BMC device. You will need to use the BIOS to set the IP address of this device. The remote console client I use is `ipmitool', available in package: system/management/ipmitool It connects over the network to set the serial port speed and other parameters, and to display the remote console. -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss