Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:38:20 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "David Duchscher" <daved@tamu.edu> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, stable@freebsd.org, Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> Subject: Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls) Message-ID: <ef10de9a0607281838j4807f95avef8b10b9cdff552@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <016E6A0B-E3E4-4444-BD27-24E75C784788@tamu.edu> References: <44C63DFD.5040401@rogers.com> <20060726160952.GW17014@poupinou.org> <016E6A0B-E3E4-4444-BD27-24E75C784788@tamu.edu>
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On 7/26/06, David Duchscher <daved@tamu.edu> 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/
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