As far as I know there is no SMIC driver in Open IPMI yet. You may wish to ask Corey Minyard if there is one coming soon. Without it you are stuck. Tum Au wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I noticed that when running sensors-detect, I get a message detecting IPMI > BMC SMIC: > > Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' > Trying address 0x0ca0... Success! > Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' > Trying address 0x0ca8... Success! > > I found out that the firmware I have for the Winbond BMC may not fully > support KCS, and the preferred means of accessing the BMC are via SMIC. Is > this a possible workaround to my problem below (previous emails attached)? > If so, how can I go about testing it? > > Thank you! > > Regards, > Richard Au > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark D. Studebaker " <mds at paradyne.com> > To: "Richard Au" <rau at pantasys.com> > Cc: <lm78 at Stimpy.netroedge.com> > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 7:05 PM > Subject: Re: lm_sensors ticket #1287 > > > >>that's not good. >>I'm stumped. >>I'll email Corey Minyard and ask if he knows anything about the Winbond > > BMC. > >> >>Richard Au wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>As you requested, I changed "0xca" to "0xc9" at line 668 in bmcsensors.c >>>(while leaving in #define DEBUG 1). The relevant output of dmesg is > > now: > >>>############################################################### >>>i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>i2c-i801.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>i2c-i801.o: I801 bus detected and initialized >>>i2c-dev.o: i2c /dev entries driver module version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>i2c-dev.o: Registered 'SMBus I801 adapter at 1100' as minor 0 >>>i2c-proc.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>ipmi: message handler initialized >>>ipmi_kcs: Acquiring BMC @ port=0xca2 >>>i2c-isa.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>i2c-dev.o: Registered 'ISA main adapter' as minor 1 >>>i2c-isa.o: ISA bus access for i2c modules initialized. >>>i2c-proc.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>eeprom.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>i2c-ipmi.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>i2c-dev.o: Registered 'IPMI adapter' as minor 2 >>>i2c-ipmi.o: Registered IPMI interface 0 with version 1.0 >>>i2c-ipmi.o: BMC access for i2c modules initialized. >>>bmcsensors.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>bmcsensors.o: Registered client, scanning for sensors... >>>bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x22 >>>bmcsensors.o: Got first resid 0x0001 >>>bmcsensors.o: Get SDR 0x0 0x0 0x0 >>>bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x23 >>>bmcsensors.o: Reducing SDR request size to 33 >>>bmcsensors.o: Get SDR 0x0 0x0 0x0 >>>bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x23 >>>bmcsensors.o: Reducing SDR request size to 16 >>>bmcsensors.o: Get SDR 0x0 0x0 0x0 >>>bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x23 >>>bmcsensors.o: Reducing SDR request size to 8 >>>bmcsensors.o: Get SDR 0x0 0x0 0x0 >>>bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x23 >>>bmcsensors.o: IPMI buffers too small, giving up >>>############################################################### >>> >>>Four your reference, here is the original dmesg output: >>> >>>############################################################### >>>ipmi: message handler initialized >>>ipmi_kcs: Acquiring BMC @ port=0xca2 >>>i2c-isa.o version 2.6.5 (20020915) >>>i2c-dev.o: Registered ?ISA main adapter? as minor 1 >>>i2c-isa.o: ISA bus access for i2c modules initialized. >>>i2c-proc.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>eeprom.o version 2.6.5 (20020915) >>>i2c-ipmi.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>i2c-dev.o: Registered ?IPMI adapter? as minor 2 >>>i2c-ipmi.o: Registered IPMI interface 0 with version 1.0 >>>i2c-ipmi.o: BMC access for i2c modules initialized. >>>bmcsensors.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) >>>bmcsensors.o: Registered client, scanning for sensors... >>>bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x22 >>>bmcsensors.o: Got first resid 0x0001 >>>bmcsensors.o: Get SDR 0x0 0x0 0x0 >>>bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x23 >>>bmcsensors.o: Error 0xc9 on cmd 0xa/0x23; state = 2; probably fatal. >>>############################################################### >>> >>>Regards, >>>Richard >> >>
