Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:53:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <20070110115218.U18382@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> In-Reply-To: <FD28EF21AC722E78057EED6E@utd59514.utdallas.edu> References: <FD28EF21AC722E78057EED6E@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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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@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@utdallas.edu) > Adjunct Information Security Officer > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ > l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk" meant nothing, "diskquota" meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of pages of laser printout - and frequently were."
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