>> One other possibility is that because I have a BMC card plugged in to the >> motherboard (SuperMicro H8SSL-i) the BMC card is not allowing access to the >> devices from lm_sensors. > > it works well for me for the same MB, only loaded patched piix4 and then > adm1026 module. Then even supermicro's superodoctor started to work on the > bow :) But I can imagine that it may become unavailable after BMC is plugged > in. I havn't bought BMC yet but I want to. I loaded the adm1026 module by hand: [root at nemo-slave0017 ~]# lsmod | egrep '(i2c|adm)' adm1026 46736 0 i2c_piix4 14480 0 adm1025 27156 0 hwmon_vid 7040 2 adm1026,adm1025 i2c_isa 10624 0 i2c_dev 17408 0 i2c_core 30720 6 adm1026,i2c_piix4,adm1025,eeprom,i2c_isa,i2c_dev I have: [root at nemo-slave0017 ~]# ls /sysfs block bus class devices firmware kernel module power [root at nemo-slave0017 ~]# ls /sys block bus class devices firmware kernel module power sensors-detect reports: "Sorry, no chips were detected." [root at nemo-slave0017 ~]# sensors Can't access procfs/sysfs file Unable to find i2c bus information; For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have mounted sysfs and libsensors was compiled with sysfs support! For older kernels, make sure you have done 'modprobe i2c-proc'!