[lm-sensors] install functioning lm-sensors on CentOS 5 -

[lm-sensors] install functioning lm-sensors on CentOS 5 -

[Kyle]

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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Kind Regards

Kyle


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Re: [lm-sensors] install functioning lm-sensors on CentOS 5 -

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Kyle,

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:20:37 +1000, 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.

No, according to the SMBus probing below, the xeontemp driver won't
help you.

> 
> 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?

Apparently your system uses IMPI for hardware monitoring. The driver
that was doing this for 2.4 kernels was ported to Linux 2.6 but was
never finalized and merged into the upstream kernel. Patches for older
2.6 kernels can be found here:
http://bmcsensors-26.sourceforge.net/
But as you can see the project didn't see any recent activity.

So at this point I think you have two options, either try to
port the above patches to your kernel yourself, or give up on
lm-sensors for that machine and use ipmitool instead, which I seem to
recall has a command line parameter to query the temperature
information (but which unfortunately won't interface nicely with 3rd
party applications as lm-sensors does.)

-- 
Jean Delvare

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