Re: [Freeipmi-users] fish crashes with "Segmentation fault" at startup

[robm_campbell]

Hi, Albert.

Sadly, dmidecode didn't reveal anything - useful tool though, thanks.

I looked through the doumentation we have and found this :

Channel 0Fh System Interface (SMS) 290h/294h
  Access mode -> always available
  Protocol -> KCS
  Medium -> System interface
  Channel Privilege -> Administrator
  User & password support -> N/A
  SessionType -> Session-less, so no user and authentication support
  Session Quantity -> 0

>From this I reckoned the default SMS base address should be 0x0290 for this
board. Tried changing the value in the default fish.scm (which installs in
/usr/local/etc/fish/ by default) without effect. So I made the change to
the header file as you suggested - still no luck.

Tried two different manufacturers boards, both with known working IPMI/BMC,
with the default address set to 0xCA2. Success! At least I know fish etc.
is working OK, it's just the board that's duff.

BTW, I noticed after I had done the rebuild that the line to be changed in
fish.scm is commented with a ';' ... Doh !

There is a chance that the documentation is wrong and I'm still looking at
the wrong address but I'm now beginning to wonder if the BMC is programmed
at all i.e. its EEPROM is blank.

How does the new code in CVS work? Does it scan a range of addresses or is
there some more subtle method? I'm ready to give it a try - can I access
it from Savannah ?

Cheers,
Rob


>-- Original Message --
>Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:49:16 -0800
>From: Albert Chu <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] fish crashes with "Segmentation fault" at
startup
>To: address@hidden
>Cc: address@hidden
>
>
>Hey Rob,
>
>> You could well be right about the default KCS port, I'll have a
>> look in the morning.
>
>Just so you know, the IPMI specification default is 0xCA2.  If you find
>an alternate default port, you may want to also give a shot at manually
>changing the ports at the top of ipmi-kcs-interface.h.  There was once a
>time I had to do that too :-)
>
>Also if you're interested, the CVS version of FreeIPMI has a lot of
>enhancements, including various code to detect the system default KCS
>port.  So if you're up for it, you could see if that works.  LMK if you
>need a tar.gz file.
>
>Thanks,
>Al



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