On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 03:23:30PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote: > On 11/09/13 06:44, singumal wrote: > >Phil Perry <phil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>On 06/09/13 21:22, Jean Delvare wrote: > >>>On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 08:37:43 -0700, singumal wrote: > >>>>I have an ASRock IMB-170 Mini-ITX board; 3.3.4's sensors-detect shows: > >>>> > >>>> Found `Winbond W83627UHG/NCT6627UD Super IO Sensors' Success! > >>>> (address 0x290, driver `w83627ehf') > >>>> > >>>>I'm on an older kernel, and I can't seem to compile the driver > >>>>from: > >>>> > >>>> http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/lm-sensors/drivers/w83627ehf/ > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>[root@plain1 driver]# uname -a > >>>>Linux plain1 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 22 04:43:29 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > >>>>[root@plain1 driver]# make > >>>> CC [M] /root/driver/w83627ehf.o > >>>>/root/driver/w83627ehf.c: In function `in_from_reg': > >>>>/root/driver/w83627ehf.c:416: error: implicit declaration of function `DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST' > >>>>... [many more errors and warnings] > >>> > >>>This driver was never tested for kernels older than 2.6.32. More > >>>compatibility work would be needed to get it to build and work on > >>>kernel 2.6.18. > >>> > >>>I'm wondering if maybe Redhat can provide a backported version as a > >>>separate package? You're probably not the only one asking for this, as > >>>this is a popular driver. > >>> > >> > >>I've already done a backport of the w83627ehf for RHEL5 and RHEL6, and > >>it is packaged as a kABI-tracking kmod RPM package (kmod-w83627ehf) in > >>the elrepo repository. > >> > >>http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-w83627ehf > >> > >>This driver is backported from the longterm kernel-3.2.50. > >> > >>Once you have set up the elrepo repository: > >> > >>yum install kmod-w83627ehf > >> > >>will pull in the updated driver. > >> > >>Further, because it's a kABI-tracking package the driver will seamlessly > >>work with new kernels so you will not need to recompile the driver > >>against each new kernel update (an advantage of Red Hat's stable kernel > >>ABI). > >> > >>Regards, > >> > >>Phil > >> > > > >Thank you very much, Phil. > > > >Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to quite like my system, > > > >The RPM installed fine, but "sensors" only shows coretemp, not the chip. > >Finally I checked the module - something isn't right: > > > >[root@tm3 etc]# modprobe w83627ehf > >FATAL: Error inserting w83627ehf (/lib/modules/2.6.18-274.el5/weak-updates/w83627ehf/w83627ehf.ko): No such device > > > > > > Hi, > > I'm not sure what the problem is. One thing I note is that you are > running an older RHEL 5.7 kernel. Would it be possible to try > booting the latest/current RHEL kernel to at least eliminate that as > the possible cause (i.e, a RHEL 5.9 kernel; > kernel-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5 is the latest). > Maybe the chip in question is not supported by the backported version of the driver. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
