User's Guide (1.0a)

3-5

Chapter 3: Troubleshooting

Note: Please have a 3.5 ﬂoppy ready to be inserted.

Step 4. When prompted, place ﬂoppy into your ﬂoppy drive.

Step 5. When ﬂoppy drive is written with the ﬁles, remove the ﬂoppy and place it

in the ﬂoppy drive of your computer with the IPMI card installed.

Step 6. Turn on the computer which has the IPMI card. Ensure that the ﬂoppy is

on the top in boot priority. Once the computer is booted from the ﬂoppy, it will start

ﬂashing the ﬁrmware. When ﬂashing is complete, you can use the ipmicfg utility to

conﬁgure the IP and MAC address of the card.

Note: If you make a bootable diskette please make sure to choose appropriate

model number of the motherboard.

Step 7. Use the ipmicfg utility to conﬁgure IP address, MAC address, gateway IP

etc. Please use instructions below to choose the correct IP and MAC address.

IP address: IP address of LAN1

MAC address: MAC address of LAN1.

IP address and MAC address of your LAN1 can be seen using ‘ipconﬁg’ com

mand in Windows and ‘ifconﬁg’ command in Linux/BSD.

Note: When plugging or unplugging a BMC card, you must ﬁrst unplug the

AC power cord.

IPMICFG usage:

Usage: IPMICFG params (Example: IPMICFG -m 192.168.1.123)

-m Show IP and MAC

-m IP Set IP (format: ###.###.###.###)

-a MAC Set MAC (format: ##:##:##:##:##:##)

-k Show Subnet Mask

-k Mask Set Subnet Mask (format: ###.###.###.###)

-dhcp on Enable the DHCP

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