[lm-sensors] Can't load smsc47m1: no such device

[khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare)]

Hi Kevin,

> My fan speed is at the highest possible speed when booted into linux on
> this system(same as speed during POST).  Load is 0.00 and x-windows is
> not installed. Winxp has a no audible fan noise unless doing high
> computation but never as high as with linux.  So, I decided to figure
> out how to tweak the fan speed.
> 
> 'sensors-detect' found SMSC 47M15x/192 and I found that in the drivers
> section of the website, I(think) can use the 'smsc47m1' driver.  So I
> tried it:
> ~]# modprobe smsc47m1 force_addr=0x0800
> FATAL: Error inserting smsc47m1
> (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp/kernel/drivers/i2c/chips/smsc47m1.ko)
> : No such device

Support for the SMSC LPC47M15x/192 chip was added to the smsc47m1
driver in Linux 2.6.13. Your kernel is older so the support is simply
not there. Unfortunately, there is no way to force a device with that
kind of driver. So your only hope is a newer kernel (or a self compiled
kernel from patched sources).

-- 
Jean Delvare