[lm-sensors] lm_sensors support for Dell PowerEdge R200 and Nat

[lm-sensors] lm_sensors support for Dell PowerEdge R200 and Nat

[Mark E. Hansen]

We have a Dell PowerEdge R200 rack mount machine. I don't much
about the motherboard (I think Dell makes their own, don't they?).

We've installed CentOS 5.3 (kernel version 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5).

I've install lm_sensors 2.10 (from an RPM: lm_sensors-2.10.7-4.el5)
and run sensors-detect. During the detection, it found nothing, except
for the following:

Found 'Nat. Semi. PC8374L Super IO Sensors'
    (but not activated)

In looking at the Devices wiki, it looks like this chip is not
supported. Is there any way to get sensors working on this machine?

The sensors-detect output told me to look at the wiki FAQ item #4.24.3,
but I was not able to find a reference like that in the FAQ.

Thanks for any help

IN case it's helpful, here is the complete output from the sensors-detect
run on the machine:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# sensors-detect revision 5291 (2008-06-23 23:40:46 -0700)

This program will help you determine which kernel modules you need
to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. It is generally safe
and recommended to accept the default answers to all questions,
unless you know what you're doing.

We can start with probing for (PCI) I2C or SMBus adapters.
Do you want to probe now? (YES/no): yes
Probing for PCI bus adapters...
Sorry, no supported PCI bus adapters found.

If you have undetectable or unsupported I2C/SMBus adapters, you can have
them scanned by manually loading the modules before running this script.

To continue, we need module `i2c-dev' to be loaded.
Do you want to load `i2c-dev' now? (YES/no): yes
Module loaded successfully.

We are now going to do the I2C/SMBus adapter probings. Some chips may
be double detected; we choose the one with the highest confidence
value in that case.
If you found that the adapter hung after probing a certain address,
you can specify that address to remain unprobed.

Some chips are also accessible through the ISA I/O ports. We have to
write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe though.
Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any ISA slots!
Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (YES/no):
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' at 0x290...       No
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J' at 0x290...     No
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' at 0x290...       No
Probing for `Winbond W83781D' at 0x290...                   No
Probing for `Winbond W83782D' at 0x290...                   No

Some Super I/O chips may also contain sensors. We have to write to
standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe.
Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no):
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f
Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   Yes
Found `Nat. Semi. PC8374L Super IO Sensors'
    (but not activated)
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f
Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   No
Trying family `SMSC'...                                     No
Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'...                       No
Trying family `ITE'...                                      No

Some south bridges, CPUs or memory controllers may also contain
embedded sensors. Do you want to scan for them? (YES/no):
Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595...                       No
VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors...                          No
VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors...                            No
AMD K8 thermal sensors...                                   No
AMD K10 thermal sensors...                                  No
Intel AMB FB-DIMM thermal sensor...                         No

Sorry, no sensors were detected.
Either your sensors are not supported, or they are connected to an
I2C or SMBus adapter that is not supported. See doc/FAQ,
doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html or http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ
(FAQ #4.24.3) for further information.
If you find out what chips are on your board, check
http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices for driver status.





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Re: [lm-sensors] lm_sensors support for Dell PowerEdge R200 and Nat

[Matt Roberds]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Mark E. Hansen wrote:
> I've install lm_sensors 2.10 (from an RPM: lm_sensors-2.10.7-4.el5)
> and run sensors-detect.

Old version is old.  :)  You might at least grab the latest and greatest
sensors-detect at
http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/prog/detect/sensors-detect?format=txt
and see what it says.  sensors-detect is independent of the rest of the
sensors package; you can run it even if you don't have lm_sensors
installed.  (You do need Perl, but if an old version of sensors-detect
works, you already have that.)

http://www.lm-sensors.org/ticket/2182 has a little more information on
this particular chip; apparently there is more than one chip that gets
detected as this one.  That page mentions a recent (Feb 2009) change to
sensors-detect to better figure out which chip you actually have.

If you go into the BIOS setup, are sensor values (voltages, fan speeds)
displayed in there?  If there is an "enable sensors" setting, make sure
it is turned on.

Matt Roberds


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Re: [lm-sensors] lm_sensors support for Dell PowerEdge R200 and Nat

[Mark E. Hansen]

On 04/21/09 21:04, Matt Roberds wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Mark E. Hansen wrote:
>> I've install lm_sensors 2.10 (from an RPM: lm_sensors-2.10.7-4.el5)
>> and run sensors-detect.
> 
> Old version is old.  :)  You might at least grab the latest and greatest
> sensors-detect at
> http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/prog/detect/sensors-detect?format=txt
> and see what it says.  sensors-detect is independent of the rest of the
> sensors package; you can run it even if you don't have lm_sensors
> installed.  (You do need Perl, but if an old version of sensors-detect
> works, you already have that.)

Actually, that link provides sensors-detect version 5291, which is the
same version installed with the 2.10 version of lm_sensors that came
with CentOS 5.3, so the results were the same.

> 
> http://www.lm-sensors.org/ticket/2182 has a little more information on
> this particular chip; apparently there is more than one chip that gets
> detected as this one.  That page mentions a recent (Feb 2009) change to
> sensors-detect to better figure out which chip you actually have.

Is there a newer version of sensors-detect? Perhaps the link provided
above was not to the latest version?

> 
> If you go into the BIOS setup, are sensor values (voltages, fan speeds)
> displayed in there?  If there is an "enable sensors" setting, make sure
> it is turned on.

This will be difficult, as the machine is in a secured machine room and
has no console. However, I will ask the system admin to have a look at
these.

Thanks,


> 
> Matt Roberds
> 



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Sacramento, CA

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Re: [lm-sensors] lm_sensors support for Dell PowerEdge R200 and Nat

[Jean Delvare]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:04:18 -0700, Mark E. Hansen wrote:
> On 04/21/09 21:04, Matt Roberds wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Mark E. Hansen wrote:
> >> I've install lm_sensors 2.10 (from an RPM: lm_sensors-2.10.7-4.el5)
> >> and run sensors-detect.
> > 
> > Old version is old.  :)  You might at least grab the latest and greatest
> > sensors-detect at
> > http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/prog/detect/sensors-detect?format=txt
> > and see what it says.  sensors-detect is independent of the rest of the
> > sensors package; you can run it even if you don't have lm_sensors
> > installed.  (You do need Perl, but if an old version of sensors-detect
> > works, you already have that.)
> 
> Actually, that link provides sensors-detect version 5291, which is the
> same version installed with the 2.10 version of lm_sensors that came
> with CentOS 5.3, so the results were the same.

The link above points to a version of sensors-detect which doesn't
include its version number. So, if you think it's version 5291, you
haven't looked at the right file.

That being said,
http://dl.lm-sensors.org/lm-sensors/files/sensors-detect
is the preferred download location now, as this one does have the
version number included.

> > http://www.lm-sensors.org/ticket/2182 has a little more information on
> > this particular chip; apparently there is more than one chip that gets
> > detected as this one.  That page mentions a recent (Feb 2009) change to
> > sensors-detect to better figure out which chip you actually have.
> 
> Is there a newer version of sensors-detect? Perhaps the link provided
> above was not to the latest version?
> 
> > 
> > If you go into the BIOS setup, are sensor values (voltages, fan speeds)
> > displayed in there?  If there is an "enable sensors" setting, make sure
> > it is turned on.
> 
> This will be difficult, as the machine is in a secured machine room and
> has no console. However, I will ask the system admin to have a look at
> these.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> > 
> > Matt Roberds
> > 
> 
> 
> 


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Re: [lm-sensors] lm_sensors support for Dell PowerEdge R200 and Nat

[Mark E. Hansen]

On 04/22/09 08:29, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:04:18 -0700, Mark E. Hansen wrote:
>> On 04/21/09 21:04, Matt Roberds wrote:
>> > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Mark E. Hansen wrote:
>> >> I've install lm_sensors 2.10 (from an RPM: lm_sensors-2.10.7-4.el5)
>> >> and run sensors-detect.
>> > 
>> > Old version is old.  :)  You might at least grab the latest and greatest
>> > sensors-detect at
>> > http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/prog/detect/sensors-detect?format=txt
>> > and see what it says.  sensors-detect is independent of the rest of the
>> > sensors package; you can run it even if you don't have lm_sensors
>> > installed.  (You do need Perl, but if an old version of sensors-detect
>> > works, you already have that.)
>> 
>> Actually, that link provides sensors-detect version 5291, which is the
>> same version installed with the 2.10 version of lm_sensors that came
>> with CentOS 5.3, so the results were the same.
> 
> The link above points to a version of sensors-detect which doesn't
> include its version number. So, if you think it's version 5291, you
> haven't looked at the right file.
> 
> That being said,
> http://dl.lm-sensors.org/lm-sensors/files/sensors-detect
> is the preferred download location now, as this one does have the
> version number included.
> 

Well, that worked better. Here is the pertinent output:

Driver `coretemp':
  * Chip `Intel Core family thermal sensor' (confidence: 9)

Driver `ipmisensors':
  * ISA bus, address 0xca8
    Chip `IPMI BMC KCS' (confidence: 8)

However, it seems these drivers are not loaded. In looking at
the Drivers wiki, it seems kernel patches may be needed. However,
I've not done that before. Can some kind person provide a step-by-
step on what I need to do to get lm-sensors working?

My OS again is CentOS 5.3, kernel 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5

Thanks for any help!


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