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