To whom it may concern, I am a student at Camosun College in Victoria, B.C.. As a project for a RedHat Linux System Admin course that I am currently taking, my partner and I were given the task of installing (or trying to install) "lmsensors". Our instructor had made a previous attempt without success, and was not really expecting us to succeed, but to gain experience in the process. Our instructor has "lmsensors" running on a few of his own (non-IBM) machines successfully. He was aware of the obstacles that we would encounter as well. Although we would have liked to have proven him wrong, we too were unsuccessful.We are running an IBM Xseries 305 server, with multiple IBM NetVista Type 6794-11U subservers all running on Redhat 9 platforms. We encountered the following message during our installation attempt, and were forced to resign our attempt. Unfortunately, we will also have to make the focus of our oral report on hardware compatibility issues and the effect that they have on future purchasing decisions. Are you aware of a patch for IBM machines that can be used with "lmsensors" so that future students may be more successful than we were? If so, we would be happy to pass this on to our instructor. The Open Source Community has suggested that they would be willing to write the patches if the necessary API's were made available.Is that a possibility for the future? Thanks in advance for any assistance that you may be able to provide. This is a printout of the fail message that we encountered. BIOS vendor (ACPI): PTLTD System vendor (DMI): IBM BIOS version (DMI): 20KT34AUS Sorry, we won't let you go on. IBM systems are known to have serious problems with lm_sensors, resulting in hardware failures. For more information, see README.thinkpad or http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/README.thinkpad. We used two methods to determine your system's vendor, and they led to different results. We'd appreciate to have feedback about such systems. Please, take some time and contact the lm_sensors mailing list at <sensors at stimpy.netroedge.com>. We need the following information: * The brand and model of your system * The BIOS vendor (ACPI) displayed above * The System vendor (DMI) displayed above Thanks! Thanks again, Brad and Tim
