Verification on an HP DL165 G7. Note that the DMIDECODE output hasn't changed, but we now see ACPI output. That ACPI output is inconsistent with the DMIDECODE output (IPMI Version 1.5 vs. 1.0), but that appears to be a bug in the ACPI table - not a parsing issue. ubuntu@bysen:~$ sudo ipmi-locate Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... done IPMI Version: 1.5 IPMI locate driver: DMIDECODE IPMI interface: KCS BMC driver device: BMC I/O base address: 0xCA2 Register spacing: 1 Probing SMIC device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing BT device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing SSIF device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing KCS device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing SMIC device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing BT device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing SSIF device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing KCS device using ACPI... FAILED Probing SMIC device using ACPI... FAILED Probing BT device using ACPI... FAILED Probing SSIF device using ACPI... FAILED Probing KCS device using PCI... FAILED Probing SMIC device using PCI... FAILED Probing BT device using PCI... FAILED Probing SSIF device using PCI... FAILED ubuntu@bysen:~$ sudo apt install freeipmi-tools -y Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: freeipmi freeipmi-bmc-watchdog freeipmi-common freeipmi-ipmidetect libfreeipmi16 libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect0 The following packages will be upgraded: freeipmi freeipmi-bmc-watchdog freeipmi-common freeipmi-ipmidetect freeipmi-tools libfreeipmi16 libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect0 8 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded. Need to get 1815 kB of archives. After this operation, 138 kB disk space will be freed. 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Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... ubuntu@bysen:~$ sudo ipmi-locate Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... done IPMI Version: 1.5 IPMI locate driver: DMIDECODE IPMI interface: KCS BMC driver device: BMC I/O base address: 0xCA2 Register spacing: 1 Probing SMIC device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing BT device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing SSIF device using DMIDECODE... FAILED Probing KCS device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing SMIC device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing BT device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing SSIF device using SMBIOS... FAILED Probing KCS device using ACPI... FAILED Probing SMIC device using ACPI... done IPMI Version: 1.0 IPMI locate driver: ACPI IPMI interface: SMIC BMC driver device: BMC memory base address: 0x0 Register spacing: 0 Probing BT device using ACPI... FAILED Probing SSIF device using ACPI... FAILED Probing KCS device using PCI... FAILED Probing SMIC device using PCI... FAILED Probing BT device using PCI... FAILED Probing SSIF device using PCI... FAILED