> I'm not sure how this is the wrong mailing list. > > I'm looking for assistance on getting lm-sensors installed on a > particular OS / CPU combination. My subject line didn't originally > state "install lm-sensors on CentOS 5 - Intel/Xeon combo. Help pls." > as I would expect that on the lm-sensors mailing list, that would be > understood. > > Is this not the mailing list to ask for assistance in installing > lm-sensors? If not, pls do let me know to which mailing list I should > post? If I knew which mailing list to ask, I would've posted there. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Kind Regards > > Kyle > > > > Kyle wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm hoping someone can hep me out pls. I've installed lm-sensors in >> the past in 2.4 kernels and it all just worked. >> >> But I cannot for the life of me understand what is happening with or >> figure out what I need for my CentOS 5 / 2.6 kernel install. >> >> I have read snippets which "SEEM" to indicate all of the modules I >> need are already compiled into or modularised with the base 2.6 >> Kernel (CentOS is of course a downline from RedHat EL), but don't >> really make it clear. When looking in 'make menuconfig', the modules >> listed as required for lm-sensors don't seem to match up with what I >> read. >> >> I've read on the lm-sensors site that I "MAY" need a different driver >> with the XEON CPU, but I can't figure out how to tell and don't want >> to mess up a new install. >> >> When running sensors-detect, it appears to fail to find just about >> everything. Basically, the abridged output of sensors-detect is as >> follows; >> >> ========================================= >> Probing for PCI bus adapters... >> Sorry, no PCI bus adapters found. >> >> i2c-dev is not loaded. Do you want to load it now? (YES/no): >> Module loaded succesfully. >> >> Next adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 2000 >> Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): >> Client found at address 0x08 >> Client found at address 0x10 >> Client found at address 0x30 >> Client found at address 0x32 >> Client found at address 0x44 >> Probing for `Maxim MAX6633/MAX6634/MAX6635'... Failed! >> Client found at address 0x50 >> Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... Success! >> (confidence 8, driver `eeprom') >> Probing for `DDC monitor'... Failed! >> Probing for `Maxim MAX6900'... Failed! >> Client found at address 0x52 >> Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... Success! >> (confidence 8, driver `eeprom') >> Client found at address 0x69 >> >> Do you want to scan the ISA bus? (YES/no): >> Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' >> Trying address 0x0ca0... Success! >> (confidence 4, driver `bmcsensors') [KL] ALL OTHERS FAILED. >> >> Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): >> [KL] ALL FAILED. >> >> Do you want to scan for secondary Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): >> [KL] ALL FAILED >> >> >> Driver `eeprom' (should be inserted): >> Detects correctly: >> * Bus `SMBus I801 adapter at 2000' >> Busdriver `i2c-i801', I2C address 0x50 >> Chip `SPD EEPROM' (confidence: 8) >> * Bus `SMBus I801 adapter at 2000' >> Busdriver `i2c-i801', I2C address 0x52 >> Chip `SPD EEPROM' (confidence: 8) >> >> Driver `bmcsensors' (should be inserted): >> Detects correctly: >> * ISA bus address 0x0ca0 (Busdriver `i2c-isa') >> Chip `IPMI BMC KCS' (confidence: 4) >> >> [KL] It then offers up the changes to rc.local and modprobe.conf. But >> within that, there's >> >> # Warning: the required module bmcsensors is not currently installed >> on your system. >> # For status of 2.6 kernel ports see >> http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/supported.html >> # If driver is built-in to the kernel, or unavailable, comment out >> the following line. >> modprobe bmcsensors >> >> [KL] How can it detect a driver if it's apparently NOT installed on >> the system. Where do I get hold of the correct bmcsensors module? >> =========================================== >> >> Can I ask any one of you to help out pls and ask me the right >> questions so I know/can figure out just what the hell I should be >> looking for? >> >>
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