Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote: > I have this new server based on the Asus DSBF-DE/SAS motherboard and a > pair of Xeons 5355. I want to run CentOS 5.0 (RHEL 5 clone) on it. > CentOS 5.0 is based on the 2.6.18 kernel and as such has drivers for > everything *except* for the sensors. The motherboard uses 83793 chip. > > So, I wanted to backport the w83793 and coretemp drivers to 2.6.18 > kernel. I took the source from 2.6.22.3 for these two and tried to > compile them for 2.6.18. > > The w83793 compiles and loads as is, without any changes. > > coretemp required some changes related to msr so I just restored the > code that was in there when coretemp was floating around as a patch > before it made it to the kernel. See the attached patch for detail. > > Anyway, with those changes both coretemp and w83793 compile and load. I > also copied sensors.conf from 2.10.4 and ran "sensors -s". However, > neither is providing any data. Output looks like this: Just a quick update. I got reply off-list that I am missing the new versions of the user tools. I installed 2.10.4 rpm from Fedora 7 and I get the readings now. Thank you Bolek
