[i2c] problems with Dell Inspiron 8000

[Matthias Weiss]

Hello!

I'm trying to get lm-sensors running on my Dell Inspiron 8000. I'm using 
Debian unstable with vanilla Kernel 2.6.18.2.

lspci gives:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory 
Controller Hub (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M4 
AGP
0000:02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i 
PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10)
0000:02:06.0 PCI bridge: Actiontec Electronics Inc Mini-PCI bridge (rev 11)
0000:02:0f.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus 
Controller
0000:02:0f.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus 
Controller
0000:02:0f.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394 
Controller
0000:08:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] 
(rev 08)
0000:08:08.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k 
(rev 01)

I've compiled the modules i2c_i801 and i2c_i810, I've loaded them with 
modprobe but sensors-detect doesn't find anything.

I've also noticed that in /dev there are no i2c-* device files. There are also 
no devices in the /sys Filesystem:

find /sys -iname "*i2c*"
/sys/module/i2c_dev
/sys/module/i2c_i801
/sys/module/i2c_i810
/sys/module/i2c_algo_bit
/sys/module/i2c_algo_bit/parameters/i2c_debug
/sys/module/i2c_core
/sys/class/i2c-dev
/sys/class/i2c-adapter
/sys/bus/i2c
/sys/bus/i2c/drivers/i2c_adapter

On this laptop I'm using udev Version 0.100.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

regards
matthias