[lm-sensors] lm_sensors + max1668

[Rudolf Marek]

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Hello Hurky,

Sorry for the delay, please CC the list too. I'm CCing the driver author.

Hurky wrote:
> Hello Rudolf,
> 
> I've two Maxim max1668 temperature sensors on the SMBus and by now
> I cannot read them out under linux. I've searched a lot of time for
> a solution but it seems that there is no finished and running kernel
> module avialable. I've tryed with Christophs module script but I'm
> still novice in the part of compiling and doing this kind of stuff.
> 
> http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007-February/018784.html
> 
> sensors-detect give me this output:
> 
> Driver `max1668' (should be inserted):
>   Detects correctly:
>   * Bus `SMBus nForce2 adapter at 5000'
>     Busdriver `i2c-nforce2', I2C address 0x18
>     Chip `Maxim MAX1668' (confidence: 7)
>   * Bus `SMBus nForce2 adapter at 5000'
>     Busdriver `i2c-nforce2', I2C address 0x19
>     Chip `Maxim MAX1668' (confidence: 7)
> 
> Did YOU have success charging the module and reading out the maxim's ?

Lets try this:

modprobe i2c-dev
i2cdump -l

This should list your busses, take a number from that which corresponds to bus
above. I will take 0 as example

then do:

i2cdump -y 0 0x18
i2cdump -y 0 0x19

And send it back here. We can take a look what is wrong.

> If yes please help me a little bit to get it work.

Yep we will ;)


> Thank you! and regards from Spain,

Greetings from Prague, Czech Republic!

Rudolf
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