[OpenIndiana-discuss] /dev/bmc on SuperMicro boards

[Mark]

On 19/11/2011 8:25 a.m., Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to load the BMC driver from Solaris 11 on my OpenIndiana b151
> install. It's a Supermicro X8DTL server board. The BMC driver is loaded
> into the correct place I believe:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys        21920 Nov 17 00:44 /kernel/drv/bmc
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys          177 Nov 17 00:44 /kernel/drv/bmc.conf
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys        34216 Nov 17 00:44 /kernel/drv/amd64/bmc
>
> However, it doesn't seem to come up automatically on boot, and manually
> running modload on amd64/bmc reports:
>
> can't load module: No such device or address
>
> Has anyone had luck getting the BMC driver to work with SM boards?
>

I have run the bmc from the last nvs release on OpenSolaris on a 
Supermicro and it works fine.
I used the SIMSO+ on a X7DWN.
I haven't tried the newer onboard Realtec chipsets yet.

Mark.