Readout sensors of an EEE Box running Ubuntu server
August 11th, 2009
Quintin, a friend of mine, showed me a way to readout the sensors of my EEE Box in Ubuntu server.
The first step is to install the lm-sensors package
$ sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
Then you need to load the w83627ehf kernel module using
$ sudo modprobe w83627ehf
In order to have your sensors detected launch the command below and follow the steps shown (basically you can just press [enter] to each question).
$ sudo sensors-detect
Now you can readout your sensors by using the command
$ sensors
Remember if you want to load the w83627ehf module every time the sysem reboots, you need to update your /etc/rc.local with the line:
modprobe w83627ehf
readout of my sensors