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Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:51:25AM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
>   
>> I need to be able to get the cpu and fan information from my 
>> motherboard, however none of the monitoring utilities in the ports seems 
>> to support my motherboard (Supermicro PDSMi, Intel E7230 (Mukilteo) 
>> Chipset). On my older VIA based motherboards and some Nvidia, i can get 
>> this information using ACPI and the hw.acpi.thermal sysctl. This however 
>> is not available on this motherboard. Would this be a shortcoming of the 
>> motherboards ACPI implementation, or a lack of support by freebsd?
>>     
>
> Does this one support IPMI?
>
>   

Yes, but with an optional $54 add-on card.