Re: Missing Modules for lm_sensors, where do they come from?

[Brian <Brian_Dorling@t-online.de>]

Chris,
thanks for your answer, I spent most of yesterday googling and looking
at the lm-sensors website. I found various module packages, but never did
actually find one for my Kernel, but I also never ever found anything that
actually stated what you have said. Maybe I am just blind.
What also was not clear was how the Debian package I got via apt-get
related to what I would get if I had just got the lm-sensors packages
and compiled everything myself. I tried looking for other Debian packages
via APT that may have had the modules, without any luck.

Still now I really do know what I am looking for.

Cheers Brian

Chris Metzler wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2004 21:41:32 +0200
> Brian <Brian_Dorling@t-online.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am currently trying to get lm_sensors installed. Sensors-detect seemed
> > to go OK. In fact all seems to be going OK until the IT87 modules should
> > be loaded. There I get "module not found". And sure enough the module is
> > not there.
> >
> > Reading much of the lm_sensors stuff did not tell me where the module
> > should come from, especially where the correct one for my machine etc
> > should come from.
> >
> > I was installing the lm-sensors 2.8.6-11 package for Debian. Looking
> > in that package file I saw no obvious modules in there.
> >
> > So could someone please point me to where the module should normally
> > come from, and also where it would normally be placed too?
>
>
> Did you try Googling?  What did you find?  Or how about the archives
> of this mailing list?  This has been discussed here many times.
>
> Briefly:  the lm-sensors packages, as the package description says,
> contains *utilities* for reading the sensors.  It doesn't contain
> the actual kernel modules necessary.  For that, you're going to need
> to download either one of the module packages ("lm-sensors-kernelversion")
> if you're running a stock Debian kernel, or build your own from
> the package lm-sensors-source if you've got a custom kernel.  You'll
> also need i2c modules ("i2c-kernelversion" or "i2c-source") as well.
>
> -c