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posted on May 7th 2007, at 11:09
by lunarg
It would've been too easy if the solution (read my previous post about this topic), would've just worked. With the source of the HP OpenIPMI package available (it seems to be included in the download), I thought it would be snap to get it compiled for our Etch kernel. I was wrong...

Downloading the .deb for sarge doesn't work on Etch right away because of a kernel version difference. Moreover, while the source of the OpenIPMI driver has been included, it does fit neatly into the kernel source, but the compiler bombs out with this:

  CC [M]  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.odrivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c: In function 'ipmi_smi_watcher_register':drivers/char/  ...
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