[lm-sensors] Chip missing from the drivers list.

[Guenter Roeck]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:58:48AM -0500, Lee Burchett wrote:
> On 02/24/2012 08:17 AM, Enrique wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > my name is Enrique and after looking how to monitor the temperature of
> > the system in my computer with lm-sensors, it turn up that my chip
> > "Nuvoton W83677HG-I Super IO Sensors" is not supported yet.
> >
> > This mail is to make you know about this, and also that I'm up to help
> > with the testing.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Enrique.
> >
> >
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> 
> Enrique,
> 
> I have the same chip in my system. Guenter helped me get it working. 
> Luckily, this chip is already supported in the latest version. If you 
> get Guenter's driver for the NCT6776F 
> (http://roeck-us.net/linux/drivers/) and pull the latest trunk of 
> lm-sensors from the repository, then you should be good to go. I did 
> have to add
> 
> w83627ehf
> 
> to my /etc/modules file. I'm not sure what distro you are using, but 
> that worked on Ubuntu x64 11.10 with the 3.0.0-16-generic kernel.
> 
It might not even be necessary to pull the latest driver. Support for NCT6775F/W83677HG-I
has been available since 2.6.39 (see http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices).

Thanks,
Guenter