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    HOWTO: Temperature Monitoring with coretemp in Sysinfo widget

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      stratoscott
      last edited by

      @show-p1984:

      Give me your whole file after the patch was applied and I can tell you what went wrong.
      Usually something like this is caused by applying a patch to another version of the file. Mine was 2.0.1 amd64, so if you apply the patch to anything else, it is likely to break if the file has changed and you just blindly apply the patch :)

      Hello,
      sorry but I was very busy, I send tot you a pm with the file. It's the same version.
      Thanks

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      • simon24S
        simon24
        last edited by

        Hi!

        I've done exactly like U wrote but it doesn't work…
        I attached my files so u can look if there is something wrong. I'm not getting any errors in any case.

        But when I'm running sysctl -a | grep temperature it doesnt do anything…

        [2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.localdomain]/root(14): sysctl -a | grep temperature
        [2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.localdomain]/root(15):
        
        

        I've allready wrote kldload coretemp but if I'm doing it again it will just print a message: File exists

        [2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.localdomain]/root(15): kldload coretemp
        kldload: can't load coretemp: File exists
        
        

        What's wrong? :)

        system_information.widget.php.txt
        functions.inc.php.txt

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          If you don't get a sysctl value at the command line the widget will never work.
          What cpu do you have?

          Steve

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          • simon24S
            simon24
            last edited by

            @stephenw10:

            If you don't get a sysctl value at the command line the widget will never work.
            What cpu do you have?

            Steve

            AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Not an Intel Core processor hence coretemp won't work.
              Instead you need the amdtemp.ko module (32bit or 64bit).

              Steve

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              • simon24S
                simon24
                last edited by

                @stephenw10:

                Not an Intel Core processor hence coretemp won't work.
                Instead you need the amdtemp.ko module (32bit or 64bit).

                Steve

                Thanks! I didn't realise it was for Intel :)
                Now it works like a charm! :)

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Yes, the name is a little ambiguous. Glad it worked I've not ever run it myself.  ;)

                  Steve

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                    RocKKer
                    last edited by

                    Works as described, I patched manually. Thanks great work show-p1984!

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                      saxonbeta
                      last edited by

                      I tried this on my system, but it did not work :(. I have a AMD Athlon™ XP 3200+ and I used the amdtemp.ko module.

                      Any sugestions???

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        The amdtemp module supports AMD K8 microarchitecture or newer. The Athlon XP is K7.

                        To get the temperature of earlier CPUs you could try using mbmon. You will have to do some coding to make it work with this widget though.

                        Steve

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                          esnakk
                          last edited by

                          Thanks! This is great and should be included in the default install IMO!!

                          Again, Thanks alot!

                          Cheers
                          E

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                          Cheers,
                          E

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                            kilthro
                            last edited by

                            Hello,
                            I tried applying the patch that is located in the main post. I downloaded the package system patch and have tried it via command line with the same result. When I test the patch I get errors saying it cant be applied cleanly. Is this due to showp1984 stuff? should it be removed? not that experienced with troubleshooting patches..

                            Output of full patch apply test:

                            /usr/bin/patch –directory=/ -t -p4 -i /var/patches/50be92a047646.patch --check --forward

                            Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
                            The text leading up to this was:

                            |diff -Naur /home/showp1984/Desktop/a/usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php /home/showp1984/Desktop/b/usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php
                            |--- /home/showp1984/Desktop/a/usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php 2012-08-07 01:01:33.902057913 +0200

                            +++ /home/showp1984/Desktop/b/usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php 2012-08-06 06:13:12.000000000 +0200
                            No file to patch.  Skipping...
                            Hunk #1 ignored at 136.
                            Hunk #2 ignored at 151.
                            2 out of 2 hunks ignored--saving rejects to a/usr/local/www/includes/functions.inc.php.rej
                            Hmm...  The next patch looks like a unified diff to me...
                            The text leading up to this was:

                            |diff -Naur /home/showp1984/Desktop/a/usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/system_information.widget.php /home/showp1984/Desktop/b/usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/system_information.widget.php
                            |--- /home/showp1984/Desktop/a/usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/system_information.widget.php 2012-08-07 01:01:27.446742521 +0200

                            +++ /home/showp1984/Desktop/b/usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/system_information.widget.php 2012-08-06 06:10:46.000000000 +0200
                            No file to patch.  Skipping...
                            Hunk #1 ignored at 232.
                            1 out of 1 hunks ignored--saving rejects to a/usr/local/www/widgets/widgets/system_information.widget.php.rej
                            done
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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              I haven't actually tried this but looking at the patch file it's obviously been built against two files on the OPs desktop machine.

                              Since this is a relatively minor change to only two files I suggest you simply edit the two files manually.

                              Steve

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                                kilthro
                                last edited by

                                Stephen,
                                I was able to do the manual edits prior to posting. I was just wondering why the patch wasn't working. It would have just saved me some time editing that's all.  Thought maybe i was doing something wrong with the patch.

                                btw thanks to the OP for working on this. I do appreciate it. Now if i could just get this info on LCDProc everything would be golden. :-D

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                                  kilthro
                                  last edited by

                                  For some reason i can't get coretemp to automatically load upon reboot. I can ssh over and run kldload coretemp and i am up and running.  I did edit the loader.conf.local and added coretemp_load="yes".  The module is in /boot/modules as well.

                                  Am I missing something else to enable pfsense to load this on boot if i have to reboot the firewall?

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    File permissions perhaps?
                                    Looks like you're doing everything correctly.

                                    Steve

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                                      kilthro
                                      last edited by

                                      @stephenw10:

                                      File permissions perhaps?
                                      Looks like you're doing everything correctly.

                                      Steve

                                      What would i be looking for in relation to file permission? is there a way to test (fake boot process) to see if it would give me an error and why it wouldnt load?

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                                        kilthro
                                        last edited by

                                        should i add the line to loader.conf? or would that be bad? Wasnt sure if the .local may not be utilized for some reason? just thinking out loud.

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                                          wallabybob
                                          last edited by

                                          @kilthro:

                                          should i add the line to loader.conf? or would that be bad? Wasnt sure if the .local may not be utilized for some reason? just thinking out loud.

                                          /boot/loader.conf may change on reinstall; /boot/loader.conf.local is guaranteed to remain untouched by a reinstall.

                                          You might see an error report on coretemp during the early boot (before the kernel is started).

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                                            Gluon99
                                            last edited by

                                            Worked just fine on my Jetway MB with pfSense 2.0.2

                                            coretemp.ko was already in /boot/kernel folder

                                            Edited all files manually

                                            – pfSense 2.0.2 Setup --
                                            Motherboard: Jetway NF99FL-525
                                            CPU: Intel Atom D525 Dual-Core 1.8GHz
                                            RAM: 1x2GB Crucial DDR3 1333
                                            HD: 60GB OCZ Agility 3 SATA III
                                            PSU: PicoPSU-80
                                            Case: M350 Universal Mini-ITX enclosure

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