TYAN M3291 Installation Manual

M3291 Installation Guide

Hardware Setup

1. 2 X 25 Pin SMDC Cable

M3291 use this cable for mainly communication between BMC and Motherboard

2. 2 X 5 Pin Serial Cable for Serial over LAN

This Cable is used for Serial over LAN(SOL). It connects the M3291 COM port (J2) and

Motherboard on board COM2.

3. NIC Port For IPMI out-of-band Function

M3291 uses one of motherboard onboard NIC for IPMI out-of-band.

Before using, please make sure which port M3291 used.

You can refer to http://www.tyan.com/support/html/faq_tso.html motherboard Illustration

Picture.

Firmware Update

1. BIOS Update

M3291 need BIOS support. So before using M3291, please make sure BIOS you used is IPMI

enabled. If not, please update BIOS first.

Users can refer to http://www.tyan.com/support/html/faq_tso.html M3291 Support List

If you wan to know the detail about BIOS for IPMI, please refer the M3291 FAQ.

2. Broadcom NIC Firmware Update

Some motherboards use Broadcom NIC as IPMI NIC. User must load Broadcom NIC ASF

firmware to enable the IPMI function. Users can get them from M3291 Driver CD or Tyan

website.

1) copy all file to floppy

2) boot to DOS

3) run “asf5704.bat” or “asf5721.bat” to flash the Broadcom NIC firmware

4) After flashing finish, choose [9] save and exit

3. M3291 Firmware Update

When M3291 production, it will load one default firmware. But it’s impossible to fit every

motherboard. So before using M3291, User also need update M3291 motherboard specified

firmware.

M3291 Driver CD contains the firmware file. User can get the latest firmware from Tyan

website.

Tyan provide both DOS and Linux utility for firmware updating. The firmware release

packages include these two utility already. User only need execute “dosfls” or “./linuxfls”

Configuration

Before using M3291, users need do some configuration first, such as IP Address. Otherwise

some IPMI function won’t work. Users can use the standard IPMI software to set. And Tyan also

provide some utilities to do them.

The most important configuration are LAN Configuration and User Password Setting.

File “m3291.cfg” contains the default setting value of M3291. User can use utility to load

this configuration file and restore the M3291 default setting.

Tyan provide following utilities.

1) UH8.EXE

M3291 Full Version Utility on DOS. \

It supports SEL, SDR, FRU, SENSOR viewer and editor.

2) UH8D.EXE

M3291 Thin Version Configuration Utility on DOS

It support do configuration via command line.

“uh8d /?” for the detail usage.