OK great! At least I have somewhere to go. I shall update my kernel and return :) Thanks -kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean Delvare [mailto:khali at linux-fr.org] > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 2:13 PM > To: Williams, Kevin C > Cc: LM Sensors > Subject: Re: Can't load smsc47m1: no such device > > Hi Kevin, > > > My fan speed is at the highest possible speed when booted > into linux > > on this system(same as speed during POST). Load is 0.00 > and x-windows > > is not installed. Winxp has a no audible fan noise unless > doing high > > computation but never as high as with linux. So, I decided > to figure > > out how to tweak the fan speed. > > > > 'sensors-detect' found SMSC 47M15x/192 and I found that in > the drivers > > section of the website, I(think) can use the 'smsc47m1' > driver. So I > > tried it: > > ~]# modprobe smsc47m1 force_addr=0x0800 > > FATAL: Error inserting smsc47m1 > > > (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp/kernel/drivers/i2c/chips/smsc47m1.k > > o) > > : No such device > > Support for the SMSC LPC47M15x/192 chip was added to the > smsc47m1 driver in Linux 2.6.13. Your kernel is older so the > support is simply not there. Unfortunately, there is no way > to force a device with that kind of driver. So your only hope > is a newer kernel (or a self compiled kernel from patched sources). > > -- > Jean Delvare >
