Phil Perry <phil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 12/09/13 09:56, singumal wrote: >> Phil Perry <phil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On 11/09/13 16:22, Guenter Roeck wrote: >>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> Hi Guenter, >>> >>> It should be (unless maybe it's being mis-detected by sensors-detect?). >>> The backport is from kernel-3.2.48 LT branch which contains the patch to >>> add support for the W83627UHG chip, as reported by sensors-detect above. >>> >>> Phil >> >> Trying it under CentOS 5.9, it still doesn't work: >> >> [root@x59 ~]# cp /media/MULTIBOOT/Work/kmod-w83627ehf-0.0-8.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm . >> [root@x59 ~]# rpm -Uvh kmod-w83627ehf-0.0-8.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm >> warning: kmod-w83627ehf-0.0-8.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID baadae52 >> Preparing... ########################################### [100%] >> 1:kmod-w83627ehf ########################################### [100%] >> Working. This may take some time ... >> Done. >> [root@x59 ~]# modprobe w83627ehf >> FATAL: Error inserting w83627ehf (/lib/modules/2.6.18-348.el5/weak-updates/w83627ehf/w83627ehf.ko): No such device >> [root@x59 ~]# uname -a >> Linux x59 2.6.18-348.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jan 8 17:53:53 EST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> > > >I see the problem (I think), and it's partially my fault. > >Support for the W83627UHG chip was only backported into version >0.0-9.el5 of the kmod-w83627ehf driver (you have version 0.0-8.el5 >installed above), and I put that into the extras repository by mistake >instead of the main repo. > >I'm assuming you are seeing the above FATAL Error as that version of the >driver does not support your device, hence "No such device". > >Please update to the latest 0.0-9.el5 version with: > >yum --enablerepo=elrepo-extras update kmod-w83627ehf > >or below is a direct link to version 0.0-9.el5 of the package but I'll >move it to it's correct repository shortly so the link will most likely >break: > >http://elrepo.org/linux/extras/el5/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-w83627ehf-0.0-9.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm > >My apologies for the inconvenience. Phil, No apologies necessary - IT WORKS! Thank you so very much (and Jean and Guenter too). Now I just have to try to get it configured - starting separate thread "ASRock IMB-170 configuration help" on that. _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
