Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE

[Brian A. Seklecki]

Dell bumbed the DRAC5 like a shark.  We use them on handful of 9th-gen 
PEs.  The client support for Console and Remote Media completely sucks and 
requires VMWare + IE6.

See linux-poweredge at lists.dell.com for more detail.  Specifically the 
firefox drac5 threads.

~BAS


On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> Is anyone using the Dell DRAC 5 cards on 6.1-RELEASE?  I played with it over 
> the weekend and couldn't seem to get it working.  Then, last night, it 
> suddenly started working.  (I can access the web admin interface now.)  For 
> some reason, I couldn't ping the card at all, even though I used STATIC and 
> assigned  known good IP, netmask and gateway.  Then, for no apparent 
> reason,it started working, after another reboot.  (Needless to say, my 
> confidence in the card isn't exactly soaring.)
>
> The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm 
> wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality working 
> under linux emulation.  If so, how did you install the rpm?  And which 
> emulation did you use?
>
> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
>

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