Subject: Re: nsclpcsio(4) in 2.0?
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/28/2005 02:22:34
On 2005.07.27 20:45:52 +0000, James K. Lowden wrote:
| I'm a little confused about the status of nsclpcsio(4) in the 2.0 release.
|  I'd like to monitor the temperature of my (next) Soekris motherboard,
| because I think I fried my current one.  
| 
| The man page says "The nsclpcsio device appeared in NetBSD 2.0", but using
| GENERIC, "dmesg |grep nscl" turns up nothing, and 
| 
| $ sudo envstat -l
| envstat: unable to open /dev/sysmon: Operation not supported by device
| 
| I note src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC says:
| 
| # Hardware monitors
| 
| # LM7[89] and compatible hardware monitors
| #lm0	at isa?	port 0x290		# other common ports: 0x280, 0x310
| 
| # VIA VT82C686A hardware monitor
| #viapm*	at pci? dev ? function ?
| #viaenv* at viapm?
| 
| where -current mentions:
| 
| # PC87366 hardware monitor
| #nsclpcsio*	at isa?
| 
| I think I am the man page disbelieving tonight.  Send-pr?  

I don't think so. From what I can see in the CVS log, the driver
really appeared on NetBSD 2.0, but it was included in the GENERIC
kernel config file after 2.0 release.

Try adding that line to your kernel config file and recompile.

		-- Rui Paulo