Hi Hans,

Thanks for you reply. I have solved this problem by install DCMI, and there is no IPMI supported on my host. 


On May 25, 2016, at 11:21 PM, Hans Ecke <hans@ecke.ws> wrote:

Frank,

The error message means that the module ipmi_si could not find the IPMI hardware device to talk to.

In the case of success it works like this:

* you call modprobe ipmi_si
* kernel loads that module into memory
* kernel calls initialization routine within that module
* initialization routine finds hardware device and tells the kernel that all is well
* there is a song and dance involving udev to create the /dev/*ipmi* device nodes
* ipmitool uses those device nodes to talk to the hardware

In your case, this is what happened:

* you call modprobe ipmi_si
* kernel loads that module into memory
* kernel calls initialization routine within that module
* initialization routine does not find hardware device and tells the kernel that it failed
* kernel unloads the module again. It passes a very short error status back to you. This is where the "Error inserting ... no such device" message comes from. This is also why "lsmod" does not show the ipmi_si module.
* no /dev/*ipmi* device nodes were created
* ipmitool does not see the device nodes

If you look at dmesg, the module initialization routine might have printed a more specific error message there. If you find such an error message, chances are you can use google to fix your situation. (or maybe you just need a different ipmi module for your computer)

Hans


On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Frank Yu <flyxiaoyu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

I am trying to load kernel module ipmi_si, while failed with error "No such device", truth is I can find file in ../kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko. So why I  can't load it?


Steps:

# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko
-rwxr--r--. 1 root root 93080 Jul 23  2015 /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko

# modprobe ipmi_si
FATAL: Error inserting ipmi_si (/lib/modules/2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko): No such device

# lsmod |grep ipmi
ipmi_devintf            7729  0
ipmi_poweroff           8532  0
ipmi_watchdog          17874  0
ipmi_msghandler        38701  3 ipmi_devintf,ipmi_poweroff,ipmi_watchdog

# ipmitool
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory

​What should I do if I want to setup IPMI on my centos host?

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Regards
Frank Yu

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