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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?


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