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diff --git a/doc/UserGuide b/doc/UserGuide index 213b367..5d25330 100644 --- a/doc/UserGuide +++ b/doc/UserGuide @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ IPMIUTIL USER GUIDE - VERSION 2.9.6 + VERSION 2.9.7 An easy-to-use IPMI server management utility @@ -5227,10 +5227,20 @@ exception of drivers: or cached at http://ipmiutil.sf.net/kern/imbdrv130.zip * The Microsoft IPMI driver (ipmidrv.sys), which comes with Windows 2003 R2 and later, is also supported. - It should be noted that the two IPMI drivers should not be installed at the same time, since they will interfere with each other. -So, for some systems or applications, you may need to uninstall the Microsoft + +Note that there are several outstanding bug reports against the Microsoft ipmidrv.sys driver which may affect its usage: + * ipmidrv.sys does not support systems with 4-byte register spacing + https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windowsserver/en-US/223e3a0d-3daa-4141-9c13-3169f766a7d5/win2008-ipmidrvsys-does-not-load-if-register-spacing-4 + * ipmidrv.sys WBEM access memory leak + https://sourceforge.net/p/ipmiutil/support-requests/11/ + https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/ca4df181-7fd4-4912-83a0-5896b030e3ca/latest-version-of-microsoft-ipmi-driver-ipmidrvsys?forum=wdk + * ipmidrv.sys with Windows 2012 does not work on many IPMI systems + This version is more broken than the Win2008 version. +If you are affected by any of these issues, you can download and install the imbdrv.sys as described below, but you must also disable the MS ipmidrv.sys. + +For some systems or applications, you may need to uninstall the Microsoft IPMI driver, like this: * start Control Panel/System app * go to Hardware tab, start Device Manager @@ -5240,6 +5250,12 @@ IPMI driver, like this: * select Properties * on driver tab, click "Uninstall" * then reboot. +If you are running Windows 2012, the Device Manager does not support this, +so use these steps to disable the Microsoft IPMIDRV: + * Start a command prompt with 'Run as administrator' + * cd \windows\system32\drivers + * move ipmidrv.sys ipmidrv.old + * then reboot How to install Intel IPMI driver from the cached copy at http://ipmiutil.sf.net/kern/imbdrv130.zip Extract imbdrv130.zip to c:\temp or similar @@ -5263,13 +5279,6 @@ make sure that the Microsoft VC++ Redistributable package is installed See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en to download this if needed. -Note that there are two outstanding bug reports against the Microsoft ipmidrv.sys driver which may affect its usage: - * ipmidrv.sys does not support systems with 4-byte register spacing - https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windowsserver/en-US/223e3a0d-3daa-4141-9c13-3169f766a7d5/win2008-ipmidrvsys-does-not-load-if-register-spacing-4 - * ipmidrv.sys WBEM access memory leak - https://sourceforge.net/p/ipmiutil/support-requests/11/ - https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/ca4df181-7fd4-4912-83a0-5896b030e3ca/latest-version-of-microsoft-ipmi-driver-ipmidrvsys?forum=wdk - ---------------------------------- 5.2 WINDOWS BUILD INSTRUCTIONS @@ -5294,14 +5303,14 @@ A copy of these files is available from http://ipmiutil.sf.net/FILES/ipmiutil-contrib.zip The above zip contains all of the contributed source used. Refer to getopt.c from one of these - BSD getopt.c: + BSD getopt.c (used by default in ipmiutil.exe): http://www.openmash.org/lxr/source/src/getopt.c?c=gsm public domain getopt.c: http://www.koders.com/c/fid034963469B932D9D87F91C86680EB08DB4DE9AA3.aspx GNU LGPL getopt.c: http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/ogg-tools/oggsplit/ Refer to openssl from this link (Apache-style license, not gpl) - http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.7l.tar.gz. + http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8x.tar.gz (used by default) 5.2.3 Copy initial contrib files into ipmiutil Below are sample directories where ipmiutil*.tar.gz was unpacked, @@ -5356,8 +5365,9 @@ Serial-Over-LAN requires. 5.3 WINDOWS COMMAND USAGE ---------------------------------- -Because of the differences in Linux getopt and the getopt used in -the Windows build, the order of parameters is more important in Windows. +Because of the differences in Linux getopt and the BSD getopt.c used by +default in the Windows build, the order of parameters is more important +in Windows. For example in Linux, the following command usages work, but not in Windows: # ipmiutil cmd 00 20 18 01 -N 192.168.1.154 |