Subject: Re: WOL on a Dell PowerEdge 2650
To: Andrew Doran <ad@NetBSD.org>
From: Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/14/2007 12:23:00
On Jun 14, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Chris Ross wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2007, at 6:38 AM, Andrew Doran wrote:
>> Does this system have IPMI? It can be a pain to set up, but once it's
>> enabled you can use ipmitool to control the power.
>
> Hmm. I don't know. But, according to:
>
> http://linux.dell.com/ipmi.shtml
>
> It does. IPMI 1.0, with a SMIC interface, whatever that
> means. :-) I'll talk a look at ipmitool. Thanks...
Ahh. Oops. A look at the ipmi(4) man page shows that it
apparently only supports IPMI 1.5 and 2.0. Not 1.0. :-( I'll poke
around the net to see if anyone else has IPMI 1.0 support, but it may
just be something people haven't done...
- Chris