install CentOS 5 - Intel/Xeon combo. Help pls.

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.
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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;

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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?
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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?

I'm not sure how this is the wrong mailing list.

I'm looking for assistance on getting lm-sensors installed on a particular OS / CPU combination. My subject line didn't originally state "install lm-sensors on CentOS 5 - Intel/Xeon combo. Help pls." as I would expect that on the lm-sensors mailing list, that would be understood.

Is this not the mailing list to ask for assistance in installing lm-sensors? If not, pls do let me know to which mailing list I should post? If I knew which mailing list to ask, I would've posted there.

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Kind Regards

Kyle

Quoted 94 lines · 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?

I'm not sure how this is the wrong mailing list.

I'm looking for assistance on getting lm-sensors installed on a particular OS / CPU combination. My subject line didn't originally state "install lm-sensors on CentOS 5 - Intel/Xeon combo. Help pls." as I would expect that on the lm-sensors mailing list, that would be understood.

Is this not the mailing list to ask for assistance in installing lm-sensors? If not, pls do let me know to which mailing list I should post? If I knew which mailing list to ask, I would've posted there.