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Date:      Sat, 14 Jun 2014 21:39:18 +0200
From:      Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
To:        sbruno@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: SMBus controller
Message-ID:  <20140614193918.GH2341@home.opsec.eu>
In-Reply-To: <1402772923.1120.13.camel@bruno>
References:  <1402772923.1120.13.camel@bruno>

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Hi!

> I note that my TLenovo 61 has one of these:
> 
> ichsmb0@pci0:0:31:3:	class=0x0c0500 card=0x20a917aa chip=0x283e8086
> rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = '82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller'
>     class      = serial bus
>     subclass   = SMBus
> 
> 
> I'm pretty ignorant here, and I had to manually load ichsmb(4) to get it
> detected.  How can I see what's on here and what its purpose for
> existence might be.

It's this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Bus

You can read some system status values (CPU temp etc).

In the ports, check sysutils/xmbmon or sysutils/healthd
whether it detects anything.

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pi@opsec.eu            +49 171 3101372                         6 years to go !



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