-------- Original Message -------- From: - Thu Sep 18 14:23:07 2003 X-UIDL: 20ccb3ad5d3dd1d0 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: <ramsay at sedsystems.ca> Received: from nelson.sedsystems.ca (nelson.SEDSystems.ca [192.107.131.136]) by Ren.netroedge.com (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8ILDwJE024029 for <phil at netroedge.com>; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:13:58 -0700 Received: from barney.sedsystems.ca (IDENT:root at barney.SEDSystems.ca [198.169.180.121]) by nelson.sedsystems.ca with ESMTP id h8ILPeH05387 for <phil at netroedge.com>; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:25:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from sedsystems.ca (sw-63.SEDSystems.ca [192.107.131.180]) by barney.sedsystems.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA22997 for <phil at netroedge.com>; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:44:33 -0600 Message-ID: <3F6A2294.5020507 at sedsystems.ca> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:24:36 -0600 From: Jim Ramsay <ramsay at sedsystems.ca> Organization: SED Sytsems, A Division of Calian Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: phil at netroedge.com Subject: A question about lm_sensors on IBM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Quarentine-Loop: Processed X-Spambayes-Classification: ham; 0.07 Hello, Philip. I work for a company who has in the past used lm_sensors for monitoring temperature in various hardware running linux, and we've been really impressed with it. The problem we've got now is that we are required to use some IBM servers, and of course lm_sensors won't run on them because of the Thinkpad 24RF08 EPROM issue. The other problem we've got is that because of other software constraints, we cannot upgrade our Linux past an approximate RedHat 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16). This means that 1) All of IBM's proprietary temperature monitoring stuff won't run, and 2) I am stuck using lm_sensors/i2c 2.7.0 As far as I can tell so far these servers need the 'piix4' module. I need to know if I can disable the check for the vendorID throughout lm_sensors, and if so how involved a change this would be, or if someone else has already done this. I will of course only do so if our IBM servers do not have the affected 24RF08 EPROM chip in them. Thanks for any help or advice you can give me on how to do this. -- Jim Ramsay Programmer Analyst SED Systems, A Division of Calian Ltd. email: ramsay at sedsystems.ca phone: 306.933.1665
