that's not good. I'm stumped. I'll email Corey Minyard and ask if he knows anything about the Winbond BMC. Richard Au wrote: > > Hi, > > As you requested, I changed "0xca" to "0xc9" at line 668 in bmcsensors.c > (while leaving in #define DEBUG 1). The relevant output of dmesg is now: > > ############################################################### > i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.7.0 (20021208) > i2c-i801.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) > i2c-i801.o: I801 bus detected and initialized > i2c-dev.o: i2c /dev entries driver module version 2.7.0 (20021208) > i2c-dev.o: Registered 'SMBus I801 adapter at 1100' as minor 0 > i2c-proc.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) > ipmi: message handler initialized > ipmi_kcs: Acquiring BMC @ port=0xca2 > i2c-isa.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) > i2c-dev.o: Registered 'ISA main adapter' as minor 1 > i2c-isa.o: ISA bus access for i2c modules initialized. > i2c-proc.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) > eeprom.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) > i2c-ipmi.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) > i2c-dev.o: Registered 'IPMI adapter' as minor 2 > i2c-ipmi.o: Registered IPMI interface 0 with version 1.0 > i2c-ipmi.o: BMC access for i2c modules initialized. > bmcsensors.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) > bmcsensors.o: Registered client, scanning for sensors... > bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x22 > bmcsensors.o: Got first resid 0x0001 > bmcsensors.o: Get SDR 0x0 0x0 0x0 > bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x23 > bmcsensors.o: Reducing SDR request size to 33 > bmcsensors.o: Get SDR 0x0 0x0 0x0 > bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x23 > bmcsensors.o: Reducing SDR request size to 16 > bmcsensors.o: Get SDR 0x0 0x0 0x0 > bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x23 > bmcsensors.o: Reducing SDR request size to 8 > bmcsensors.o: Get SDR 0x0 0x0 0x0 > bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x23 > bmcsensors.o: IPMI buffers too small, giving up > ############################################################### > > Four your reference, here is the original dmesg output: > > ############################################################### > ipmi: message handler initialized > ipmi_kcs: Acquiring BMC @ port=0xca2 > i2c-isa.o version 2.6.5 (20020915) > i2c-dev.o: Registered ?ISA main adapter? as minor 1 > i2c-isa.o: ISA bus access for i2c modules initialized. > i2c-proc.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) > eeprom.o version 2.6.5 (20020915) > i2c-ipmi.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) > i2c-dev.o: Registered ?IPMI adapter? as minor 2 > i2c-ipmi.o: Registered IPMI interface 0 with version 1.0 > i2c-ipmi.o: BMC access for i2c modules initialized. > bmcsensors.o version 2.7.0 (20021208) > bmcsensors.o: Registered client, scanning for sensors... > bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x22 > bmcsensors.o: Got first resid 0x0001 > bmcsensors.o: Get SDR 0x0 0x0 0x0 > bmcsensors.o: Send BMC msg, cmd: 0x23 > bmcsensors.o: Error 0xc9 on cmd 0xa/0x23; state = 2; probably fatal. > ############################################################### > > Regards, > Richard