Verification on an HP DL385 G7: ubuntu@jellyplum:~$ sudo ipmi-locate Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... done IPMI Version: 2.0 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@jellyplum:~$ sudo apt install -y freeipmi-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: freeipmi-common libfreeipmi16 libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect0 Suggested packages: freeipmi-ipmidetect freeipmi-bmc-watchdog The following packages will be upgraded: freeipmi-common freeipmi-tools libfreeipmi16 libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect0 5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded. Need to get 1731 kB of archives. After this operation, 131 kB disk space will be freed. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 libfreeipmi16 amd64 1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1 [826 kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 libipmiconsole2 amd64 1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1 [83.9 kB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 libipmidetect0 amd64 1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1 [25.6 kB] Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 freeipmi-tools amd64 1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1 [622 kB] Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 freeipmi-common amd64 1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1 [174 kB] Fetched 1731 kB in 0s (15.7 MB/s) (Reading database ... 97698 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libfreeipmi16_1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libfreeipmi16 (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1) over (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4) ... Preparing to unpack .../libipmiconsole2_1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libipmiconsole2 (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1) over (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4) ... Preparing to unpack .../libipmidetect0_1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libipmidetect0 (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1) over (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4) ... Preparing to unpack .../freeipmi-tools_1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking freeipmi-tools (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1) over (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4) ... Preparing to unpack .../freeipmi-common_1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking freeipmi-common (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1) over (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4) ... Processing triggers for install-info (6.5.0.dfsg.1-2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ... Setting up freeipmi-common (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1) ... Setting up libfreeipmi16 (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1) ... Setting up libipmiconsole2 (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1) ... Setting up libipmidetect0 (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1) ... Setting up freeipmi-tools (1.4.11-1.1ubuntu4.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... ubuntu@jellyplum:~$ sudo ipmi-locate Probing KCS device using DMIDECODE... done IPMI Version: 2.0 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... done IPMI Version: 2.0 IPMI locate driver: ACPI IPMI interface: KCS BMC driver device: BMC I/O base address: 0xCA2 Register spacing: 2 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