Re: sensory data from intel board

["michael" <michael@estone.ca>]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:59:28 -0800, michael wrote
> Purged lm-sensors and removed the i2c* modules.
> rebooted and loaded ipmi_devintf and ipmi_msghandler okay.
> However, trying to modprobe ipmi_si still ends up hanging.
> Perhaps the server board doesn't support this module?
> or maybe there's a conflict somewhere?
> Whats really dumb is that even in the MB BIOS, there's no power management
> to even look at the CPU temp. So I have no idea how hot the CPU's 
> are running.

Okay, I spoke a little too soon.
There was some intel management stuff disabled in the bios by default.
I enabled, rebooted, and now the ipmi_si module loads no problem.

# ipmitool sensor 

Gives me the info I was looking for.

Thanks,
Mike