Hey folks,
Tis the season so I bought myself a replacement iKVM module for my Asus P11C-i motherboard. Replacement, because I nuked the previous one by upgrading the firmware. Specifically, I fell into a variant of this problem:
What I did with the last one was to update to the firmware published for the iKVM itself, which was 1.15, versus the one one published under my specific board, which was 1.13. Initially I was able to get into it but the HTML5 KVM was very unstable and kept dropping. So I tried to roll back the firmware and ran into the above - no matter what I tried, I couldn't get into the thing, and the IPMI device became extremely problematic - it held up boot for several minutes before reporting a fault, and /dev/ipmi0 disappeared from the OS.
I have firmware version 1.13.1 on the replacement. I notice that 1.13.6 is available under the motherboard. However, since I've had previous trouble and I'm not the only one, I'm not keen to upgrade. I have no specific reason to upgrade, all the features I want work, but I'm thinking of security issues now and in future.
Anyone successfully upgraded these units who can reassure me? They're replaceable but that doesn't mean they're consumable...
Tis the season so I bought myself a replacement iKVM module for my Asus P11C-i motherboard. Replacement, because I nuked the previous one by upgrading the firmware. Specifically, I fell into a variant of this problem:
What I did with the last one was to update to the firmware published for the iKVM itself, which was 1.15, versus the one one published under my specific board, which was 1.13. Initially I was able to get into it but the HTML5 KVM was very unstable and kept dropping. So I tried to roll back the firmware and ran into the above - no matter what I tried, I couldn't get into the thing, and the IPMI device became extremely problematic - it held up boot for several minutes before reporting a fault, and /dev/ipmi0 disappeared from the OS.
I have firmware version 1.13.1 on the replacement. I notice that 1.13.6 is available under the motherboard. However, since I've had previous trouble and I'm not the only one, I'm not keen to upgrade. I have no specific reason to upgrade, all the features I want work, but I'm thinking of security issues now and in future.
Anyone successfully upgraded these units who can reassure me? They're replaceable but that doesn't mean they're consumable...