On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Denny White wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Had originally posted a message "Tuning NFS File Transfer Speed" > and had eventually posted a "Solved" reply to it on the list. > That turned out to be erroneous. It did turn out to be a hardware > issue. Had some leaking capacitors on the old VIA Abit mobo and > replaced it with a Aopen MX3ST mobo picked up on the cheap. All > seems to be working okay so far, but my question concerns what > dmesg is saying. I googled all over, searched in the archives, > and came up with lots of dmesg's that mentioned it, but didn't > explain specifically what that one line meant. It says: > > "Intel 82801BA SMBus" rev 0x05 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 not configured > > Before asking anything on the list, I tried different things in the BIOS > like disabling USB, the onboard NIC, juggled some IRQ's, just generally > doing some experimenting, but the message is still there. I'd just like > to know what exactly it means & maybe be pointed to a site that explains > it so I can learn more about it. Will put in output of dmesg & ifconfig > below. Thanks for all replies.
There's nothing wrong. It just mean SMBus is not supported. SMBus is a system management bus. It is generally used to read and control fans, temperature sensors and such. It is not supported on 3.8, but 3.9 will support a wide variety of SMBus controllers. Install 3.9-beta to take a look. It's available on the various mirrors. The ichiic(4) and iic(4) man pages contain some more info. You can read them via the web site: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ichiic -Otto
