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First post, by audiocrush

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Hello,

I just wanted to ask if anyone has drivers for the Compaq Remote Insight Lightsout Edition II Out of Band managment card.
I've been looking online for days now but I can't seem to find any.
Preferrably for Windows 2000 but other versions would also be fine.

https://www.nerdsh.org/ - my blog, a bit neglected though
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Reply 1 of 8, by Horun

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Ok not sure if this is what you want but digging thru compaq's and hp's web archives got me these:
the link from bottom of this page : http://web.archive.org/web/20010612062130/htt … -downloads.html
took me here: http://web.archive.org/web/20030619235040/htt … nload/9246.html which thru archives calendar got me here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040804182127/htt … t/us/index.html which then using Win2000 took me to this nice archive which gives some file names
v2.3: http://web.archive.org/web/20030619235040/htt … nload/9246.html which is cp000480.exe
v 3.2.0 http://web.archive.org/web/20040911101207/htt … load/19559.html which is cp004128.exe
v 3.2.1 http://web.archive.org/web/20040911101502/htt … te/20_5868.html which lists CP004171.exe
The firmware update for v 3.2 is cp004707.exe so probably good neither was found.
Found the cp000480.exe for the Insight Lightsout and the cp004128.exe for Insight Lightsout II at Cnet of all places.
As for the current Compaq/HP ftp mirrors, many of those cp0041** and 47** files are missing. found the Compaq_RILOE_II_User_Guide in pdf too.
Will try to dig more later but in a morning of searching was all I could find ;p Here is cp004128

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    cp004128.txt
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    1.18 KiB
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    Public domain
  • Filename
    cp004128.exe
    File size
    301.21 KiB
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    33 downloads
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    Fair use/fair dealing exception

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Reply 2 of 8, by AmiSapphire

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Odd, all I found was the user manual, which has a date of May 2002 (but copyright is 2000):
https://sndhm.net/docs/compaq/products/server … _User_Guide.pdf

Keep finding references to both versions on the Compaq mirrors (utilities for them are present, but drivers were somewhere else), HP's own servers no longer have these utilities anymore (probably moved to HPE, then subsequently gone...). The drivers were never on the Compaq FTP server. There are firmware ROMPaqs for the RILOE II card on the Compaq mirrors, but not sure if yours is out-of-date, however.

Found drivers for Windows 2000 for the first version, but not the second version (standalone). But... found the SmartStart 5.50 CD in this archive:
https://archive.org/details/compaq-smart-star … 0/CPQMgmtCD.jpg

It is on the 'Compaq SmartStart 5.50.iso' ISO. From the manual:
The Compaq Support Paq is available on the Compaq website or on the SmartStart for Servers CD in the \CPQSUPSW\NTCSP subdirectory.

Edit: After Horun mentioned the file list, I managed to obtain cp004171.exe (3.2.1.0), which is later than the one they attached here (which is 3.2.0.0). No .txt file, however.

Edit 2: The known Compaq mirrors have these cp00xxxx files present. Still no .txt files for them.

Edit 3: Created .txt file from cp004128.txt for future reference.

Edit 4: Last known firmware version for the card (v1.13):
http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/ftp-archives/ftp … 00/cp004707.exe
http://web.archive.org/web/20040926195218/htt … load/20984.html

and previous firmware version for the card (v1.12):
http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/ftp-archives/ftp … 00/cp004366.exe
http://web.archive.org/web/20040301041402/htt … load/19884.html

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    cp004171.txt
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    Public domain
  • Filename
    cp004171.exe
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    29 downloads
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    Public domain
Last edited by AmiSapphire on 2022-10-01, 21:04. Edited 5 times in total.

Site update: cwcyrix.duckdns.org -> cwcyrix.nsupdate.info due to the former no longer working.

Reply 3 of 8, by Horun

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Great ! yes saw that CD mentioned in the user guide, will DL it for future reference, thanks.
According to the 2005 HP web archive ftp compaq did at one time have the drivers (or they would not have linked them me thinks ;p):
http://web.archive.org/web/20050424000257/htt … load/20225.html
click download takes you here: ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/sup … 00/cp004128.exe

added: thanks for the cp004171.exe. Yeah you could make a text file from the archive original DL page:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050424000257/htt … load/20225.html

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Reply 4 of 8, by AmiSapphire

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The card's firmware (and some other older server stuff) is on the known Compaq mirrors; my previous post now reflects that. I discovered this by accident while searching for some files and found my mirror in the process. This particular FTP archive needs some additional notes as it is missing information in places.

And checking rebyte.me, there may be later firmware for the card as well... v1.20 exists for it for example. It's on the Compaq mirror. There are later Windows Server 2003 drivers, but those are on another server, which I cannot mirror yet. Final edit for this post...

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Drivers for Windows 2000/Server 2003 (version 3.5.0.0):
http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/ftp-archives/ftp … 00/cp005795.exe

Firmware (version 1.20):
http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/ftp-archives/ftp … 00/cp006199.exe

Firmware (version 1.21):
http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/ftp-archives/ftp … 00/cp006589.exe

Site update: cwcyrix.duckdns.org -> cwcyrix.nsupdate.info due to the former no longer working.

Reply 5 of 8, by Horun

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Good finds ! I found driver v3.6.0 but it dropped Win2000 support, only 2003 and XP from the .inf...

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 6 of 8, by audiocrush

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Oh my
You are really great.
Thank you so much!
It is beyond me how anyone would be able to find something in those ftp structures that have seemingly random generated file and folder names.
Is there any trick to it?
Also how would someone find out where an old ftp server is mirrored?
And is there a way to contribute somehow so that these mirrors won't be shut down? I mean whoever is running them might not be around forever

https://www.nerdsh.org/ - my blog, a bit neglected though
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChsU6woi3lhLhtT_ILbSCCw - Some videos of mine

Reply 7 of 8, by AmiSapphire

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The Compaq and HP stuff has a reference .txt file for some of the earlier SoftPAQ files (up to around 23000, though some of Compaq's stuff will need the site archive as reference), but for HP-era ones past that, you will need some archives of HP's website as reference regardless, as HP pretty much got rid of a bunch of old info around 2020.

How the firmware was accidentally discovered in the Compaq FTP mirror was after cross-checking the archives for the v1.13 firmware (thanks to Horun), I searched for the cp004707.exe firmware file on Google and my mirror showed up in the search results. This does work at times for other Compaq files (usually SoftPAQs).

The cwcyrix mirror from May 2018 is mine (home server since 2005/2006 😉); the only other known mirror from February 2021 is: https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.compaq.com/

The original Internet Archive page for ftp.compaq.com is: https://archive.org/details/ftp.compaq.com and the .tar file is ~220GB. Browsing that through the Archive would really lag up the browser due to the very large directory tree, so it was just easier to mirror it. Since I know of only two mirrors, someone else should mirror it if they are able to.

For browsing FTP servers nowadays, you'll need the SeaMonkey browser or a real FTP client. But, HP's current FTP servers no longer have these files. (The SoftPAQ subdirectory there is still being used today!)

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So my earlier statement, the 'Compaq drivers weren't on the FTP server' was very wrong; it just wasn't in the SoftPAQ subdirectory (where most people would download from anyway), but rather the /products/servers/supportsoftware/ directory path.

Site update: cwcyrix.duckdns.org -> cwcyrix.nsupdate.info due to the former no longer working.

Reply 8 of 8, by Horun

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AmiSapphire wrote on 2022-10-02, 02:29:

The cwcyrix mirror from May 2018 is mine (home server since 2005/2006 😉)

Wow did not know that. Thank you ! Have used it many times in last few years or maybe a decade and am sure many other members here have too.
It is one of the most complete mirrors of the Compaq and HP ftps as well as other ftp sites. Many of the Compaq and HP mirrors do not cover the server stuff well if at all.
For shits and grins grabbed the last NT 4.0 driver (cp004130.exe). http://web.archive.org/web/20050331171205/htt … load/19560.html
It does not mention which Firmware it supports but figure it worth saving with the bunch.

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun