Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2021-09-24, Maksim Rodin <a23s4a2...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > My system has several fans connected to the MB (Supermicro X8SIL-F) > > "sysctl hw.sensors.lm1" shows only fan0. > > Is there a way to make my system (OpenBSD 6.9 stable) show more fans in > > that output? > > > > Try "boot -c" and "enable ipmi" "quit". > > Apparently some machines had a problem with this (IIRC there was some > IBM server with a problem) but most systems don't have a problem, and > some systems (including most Supermicro) do attach sensors there.
I still get ipmi0: sendcmd failed On various other machines, when ipmi is enabled. Not right away, but eventually. The problem isn't that there are machines with busted IPMI, it is that our ipmi code is incredibly optimistic and doesn't know how to cope with failure. And as a result, the ipmi code will remain disabled until someone steps up and makes the code better. Having a few more sensors does not justify the potential problems.
