IPMI Console: No luck once OS is booted

[Miroslav Lachman]

PaulFr wrote:
>
>
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, David Duchscher wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 10, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I don't have that IPMI card but I can say we have other cards of theirs
>>>>> working.  I would make sure the card is at the latest version of
>>>>> firmware.
>>>>> The AOC-SIMSO(+) card was not detected correctly until we upgraded.  I
>>>>> don't know why the card is going away when freebsd boots since I assume
>>>>> you are on the dedicated LAN interface with its own IP address.
>>>> Yes.  It's not going away, just doesn't see the key strokes.
>>>
>>> Looking through your dmesg file, I don't see a USB keyboard being
>>> attached.
>>> On my system, the virtual keyboard is a USB keyboard.
>>>
>>> ukbd0:<Peppercon AG Multidevice, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2>  on
>>> uhub3
>>> kbd2 at ukbd0
>> Good catch.  When I set it to disable USB Mass Storage when no image
>> is loaded, the ukbd came alive, and I'm typing this on the IPMI Console.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> DaveD
>>>
>>
>
> Larry
> I have a similar problem as you describe in this posting using a SuperMicro
> X8SIL-F motherboard with onboard IPMI.  The console redirection works fine
> during boot until the OS (pfSense - FreebSD 7.2 Release p5) boots and then I
> can't enter anything from the keyboard.  Screen output is OK.  I notice
> there is also no usb keyboard being detected during boot - instead a usb
> mass storage device is added.  Thus I suspect I am seeing the same issue as
> you did.
>
> When you mentioned "When I set it to disable USB Mass Storage when no image
> is loaded, the ukbd came alive..."  how did you do that?

Can you try to boot FreeBSD 8 or 7.3 live system, not installer? I had 
same problem with 7.2 installer, but IPMI works with installed 7.2 
GENERIC kernel from HDD.
8.0 installer and installed GENERIC kernel works fine in both case.
So I think there is some bug in older releases.

Miroslav Lachman