Comment 7 for bug 916200

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Stefan Bader
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> They are of course different. I just checked with a resent 2.6.2-37.81
> generic i386 kernel. And here the module loads just fine. Note that you
> had to load ipmi_devintf always to make ipmitool work. Please check
> dmesg after the failed load as that normally shows more detailed errors.

# lsmod | grep ipmi
ipmi_devintf 8143 0
ipmi_msghandler 37083 1 ipmi_devintf

# modprobe ipmi_devintf
# modprobe ipmi_si
FATAL: Error inserting ipmi_si
(/lib/modules/2.6.32-37-generic/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko):
No such device

[379940.240689] IPMI System Interface driver.
[379940.240694] ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine at
i/o address 0xca2, slave address 0x0, irq 0
[379940.240701] ipmi_si: Interface detection failed
[379940.550664] ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)

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>  missing kernel module ipmi_si module
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