Subject: Re: envstat
To: Matthew Fincham <matthewf@cat.co.za>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/08/2003 00:03:33
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:50:18PM +0200, Matthew Fincham wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am having difficulty getting evnstat to work on a 1.6 system. The message
> "failed to enumerate sensors" is reported. After doing some tests with the
> envstat source it appears that there are no sensors on the /dev/sysmon
> device.
> 
> I have found that it does work on a different motherboard, which is starting
> to narrow it down! I have enabled the "lm0" device in the kernel. I have
> also tried enabling the "viaenv" device, but without success. Is it possible
> that the motherboard doesn't support this monitoring? The motherboard that
> envstat fails on is newer than the one it works on so I don't think that
> will be the case. I have checked the BIOS but found nothing relating to
> temperature sensors etc.
> 
> Any hints where to look next? If it helps the non-working motherboard is a
> NB76-TL (Intel 845G chipset)

It's quite possible that NetBSD doesn't have drivers for this motherboard
yet

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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