From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 29 01:38:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63BE616A584 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:38:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C2943D45 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:38:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so3502uge for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:38:20 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qZnaqQJJ7Oga562LKKgeiVyYLGPTfaY91tq4cHDZQktegp8oEOEr7cnZjUVrMaS1FzvNBYAGUTZ074u1bfq6pbCCs3CJA/iGi7wlW/QIQx7HzPXPQaidqA74LmyVVnf/6+VL7l8FFkzMkxTOjk5tbIX7EaPieb9m21ziEdPWzX4= Received: by 10.78.193.5 with SMTP id q5mr2160huf; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.11 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:38:20 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "David Duchscher" In-Reply-To: <016E6A0B-E3E4-4444-BD27-24E75C784788@tamu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44C63DFD.5040401@rogers.com> <20060726160952.GW17014@poupinou.org> <016E6A0B-E3E4-4444-BD27-24E75C784788@tamu.edu> Cc: Mike Jakubik , stable@freebsd.org, Bruno Ducrot Subject: Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:38:22 -0000 On 7/26/06, David Duchscher wrote: > > On Jul 26, 2006, at 11:09 AM, 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, the Supermicro PDSMi supports the IPMI 2.0 module and I can > confirm that it works with the IPMI ported driver from current on > 6.1. The module is optional so you will have to purchase one for > the system, around 0. You will also need the latest BIOS loaded on > the motherboard for it to work. > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-IPMI20-E.cfm > What about their other IPMI 2.0 cards: http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/SIM.cfm Specifically the AOC-SIMLP? and what ported IPMI driver are we talking about? Also does anyone have an IPMI primer, I've never used it before? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/