-- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 [log in to unmask] http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Div/Core Support Services Dept./Scientific Computing Section Assistant Group Leader, Farms and Clustered Systems Group Lead of Computing Farms Team ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:24:22 -0600 (CST) From: Steven Timm <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: lm_sensors >=2.9 on SL4 (fwd) It appears that the analogous kernel modules for SL4 never got made in the ATRPMS repository. Does any scientific-linux based site out there actually have lm_sensors 2.9.x or 2.10.x working in combination with an SL4-based Enterprise kernel as distributed by our dear Upstream Vendor? If so, how? lm_sensors list is saying it can't be done. Steve Timm On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Maarten Ballintijn wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I am using : > > i2c-kmdl-2.4.21-37.ELsmp-2.9.2-3.el3.at.x86_64 > lm_sensors-2.9.2-42.el3.at.x86_64 > lm_sensors-kmdl-2.4.21-37.ELsmp-2.9.2-42.el3.at.x86_64 > > from the ATrpms repository on our Opterons. > > Cheers, > > Maarten. > > Steven Timm wrote: >> The 2.6.9 series of kernels, as distributed by our dear >> Upstream Vendor and recompiled by us, are distributed with >> lm_sensors 2.8.7, which is a deprecated version. It works OK >> for older hardware but for the newer hardware, any of the >> new 64-bit boards, it doesn't have the chip modules needed >> to support them, nor the underlying newer i2c routines >> on which those chip modules depend. >> >> Has anyone found an easy workaround for this? It is a lot >> different now that the i2c is integrated into the main >> kernel source. In 2.4 kernels you could just compile all >> the modules fresh and tack them on. Now you have to >> patch out some stuff and put in other stuff. If anyone >> has already done this it could save us here at Fermilab a >> lot of work. (P.S. I already put out this query >> to the lm_sensors mailing list and got nothing). >> >> Steve > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 [log in to unmask] http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Div/Core Support Services Dept./Scientific Computing Section Assistant Group Leader, Farms and Clustered Systems Group Lead of Computing Farms Team