********************************************************************** Release Notes for OSA IPMI device driver Copyright (c) 2003-2004 OSA Technologies Inc, an Avocent Company All rights reserved. Date Created : October 7, 2003 Date Modified : September 7, 2005 ********************************************************************** ====================================================================== CONTENTS ====================================================================== 1.0 Overview 2.0 Windows driver installation 3.0 Change log 4.0 Web Sites and Support Phone Number 5.0 Trademarks and Notices 6.0 Disclaimer ====================================================================== 1.0 Overview ====================================================================== 1.1 Driver Version Windows 2.2.1.1 1.2 Supported Operating System - Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (standard and enterprise edition) - Microsoft Windows server 2003 (standard and enterprise edition) - Microsoft Windows server 2003 x64 Edition (standard and enterprise edition) ====================================================================== 2.0 Windows driver installation ====================================================================== To install OSA IPMI KCS driver for Microsoft Windows 2000 server or Windows server 2003, simply run the setup.exe. During installation, the driver will query SMBIOS record 38 for device driver parameters. 2.1 unattended installation step 1, create a response file. From a CMD shell, cd to where driver setup.exe resides and run 'setup.exe /r /f1"c:\temp\ipmi.iss"'. Be careful, there is no space between /f1 and the following quote! This launches a driver installation session as well as records your responses for each screen and save it under c:\temp\ipmi.iss. step 2, invoke silent installation with the response file. You can modify the response file content afterwards if you wish. From a CMD shell execute 'setup.exe /s /v"/qn" /f1"c:\temp\ipmi.iss". ====================================================================== 3.0 Change log ====================================================================== Windows 2000 Server and Windws Server 2003 * version 2.2.1.1 on June-26-2005 * - Modified Windows driver to fix blue screen when miniBMC is disabled by RSA card. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows 2000 Server and Windws Server 2003 * version 2.2.1.0 on April-21-2005 * - Fixed incorrect response length when returning non-zero Command Completion Code bug in raw.dll. Resubmit the driver package and obtain ditigally signature from Microsoft WHQL. - 64bit device driver support for Microsoft Windows server 2003 x64 Edition. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows 2000 Server and Windws Server 2003 * version 2.2.1.0 on July-29-2004 * - digitally signed by Microsoft on windows server 2003 and windows 2000 server. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows 2000 Server and Windws Server 2003 * version 2.2.1 * - recompile Windows driver with "kernel thread mode" in VC++. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================================== 4.0 Web Sites and Support Phone Number ====================================================================== 4.1 IBM Support Web Site: http://www.pc.ibm.com/support 4.2 IBM eServer xSeries Web Site: http://www.ibm.com/eserver/xseries 4.3 If you have any questions about this update, or problems applying the update, go to the following Help Center World Telephone Numbers and URL: http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/YAST-3P2QYL.html ====================================================================== 5.0 Trademarks and Notices ====================================================================== 5.1 The following terms are trademarks of the IBM Corporation in the United States or other countries or both: - IBM - xSeries - eServer 5.2 The following terms are trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the United States or other countries or both: - Windows - Windows 2000 - Windows Server 2003 5.3 Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. ====================================================================== 6.0 Disclaimer ====================================================================== THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. IBM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND MERCHANTABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT. BY FURNISHING THIS DOCUMENT, IBM GRANTS NO LICENSES TO ANY PATENTS OR COPYRIGHTS. Appendix A: Package Specific Installation Instruction This update is packaged as a self-extracting PackageForTheWeb (PFTW) executable file. To use this update your TEMP environment variable must be set to a path with read/write access. You must be logged in as an administrator. The command-line syntax for PackageForTheWeb executable device driver update package is: Package.exe [-s] [-a [-s] | [-x directory] | [-?] ] [-s] This command installs an update silently and does not notify you if your files need to be over written in the %temp% directory. [-a] This command passes all subsequent commands to the install package. [-s] This second -s command installs the update silently and unattended. [-x directory] This command extracts the update files to a directory named directory. The PackageForTheWeb executable extracts itself to subdirectory in the %TEMP% directory. Extracted directories will be relative to that location. Typically you must specify an absolute directory. [-?] This command displays information about the command line switches. The command line swithces -a and -x are unattended. Other command line options such as display help (-?) might require that you to hit any key to continue. If Windows packages are run without any command line options, a GUI is displayed. This GUI offers all of the options that are available using the command line.