Re: [Freeipmi-users] Re: FreeIPMI 1.0.1 Released

[Albert Chu]

Hey John,

Good call, I hadn't thought of inputting a specific type to dmidecode, I
always just grepped :-)  I'll add that note to the FAQ.

Thanks,

Al

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 14:11 -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
> > I've added a section to the FAQ on the website to add a little bit of
> > info to atleast point people in the right direction.  There will also be
> > some manpage updates in the next release.
> 
> Thank you for the FAQ update.  In doing some more trolling around,
> I found this web page:
> 
>   
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/querying-dumping-bios-from-linux-command-prompt.html
> 
> which suggests that this command will dump info about an IPMI device,
> if it exists in the DMI:
> 
>   dmidecode --type 38
> 
> It also produces a sample printout of what such IPMI information might
> look like.
> 
> You might want to put something similar into the FAQ, at least pointing
> out that if dmidecode produces an entry of type 38, it's likely that
> your motherboard has IPMI (but perhaps not the reverse).
> 
>       John
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