From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 13:44:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150B016A41F for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:44:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ducrot@poupinou.org) Received: from poup.poupinou.org (poup.poupinou.org [195.101.94.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA20043D48 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:44:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ducrot@poupinou.org) Received: from ducrot by poup.poupinou.org with local (Exim) id 1F1kwz-0003CB-00; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:44:41 +0100 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:44:41 +0100 To: Surer Dink Message-ID: <20060125134441.GA11603@poupinou.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Bruno Ducrot Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU/case/disk temperature sensors for Dell PowerEdge 2850 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:44:47 -0000 On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:48:37PM -0500, Surer Dink wrote: > All, > (I was told this was /one/ of the appropriate forums for this message - > however I did not want to cross-post - if this is not the correct place, > please let me know and I will try the other suggestions [acpi- and ports-].) > > I have tried every means I could find to read the temperature sensors (CPU, > case, disk) on Dell PowerEdge 2850 machines, and none seem to work. Has > anyone had success in doing this? If such support does not exist, what > would be required to add it? If needed, I am willing to finance (within > reason) development of this feature. [I was told that Linux and Windows > software to read this information is available, so I assume this is > possible.] > First, install sysutils/freeipmi, then try it by this command: # bmc-info If it don't work, or loop forever, please install dmidecode (sysutils/dmidecode) then give us the output from it for the type entry 38 (IPMI Device Information). An example of such entry is: Handle 0x002B DMI type 38, 18 bytes. IPMI Device Information Interface Type: KCS (Keyboard Control Style) Specification Version: 1.5 I2C Slave Address: 0x10 NV Storage Device: Not Present Base Address: 0x0000000000000CA8 (I/O) Register Spacing: 32-bit Boundaries Cheers, -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.