PFSense Thermal Sensors not working

[kp206]

Hello,

I installed pfSense about three weeks ago, and I'm still learning as I am new to all this. However, after installing, I noticed on my dashboard the Thermal Sensors says, updating. And couldn't find any fixes online. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Gertjan]

@kp206

You posted in the hardware forum, that's ok.
But you didn't mention what hardware you use. Why ? Should we come over ?

[stephenw10]

The thermal sensors widget or the temperature reading in the system information widget?

What do you have selected in Sys > Adv > Misc for thermal sensors?

And, yes, what hardware is this?

Steve

[kp206]

@stephenw10 Hi Stephenw10, The hardware im using is a Intel i7-8700 CPU.

My apologies for posting this on the hardware form.

[stephenw10]

No worries, it's a hardware question.

Have you enabled the Core Temp driver by selecting it from the Sys > Adv > Misc menu?

You should see it in the boot log if it attaches correctly. Something like:

Dec 16 20:39:26 	kernel 		coretemp0: <CPU On-Die Thermal Sensors> on cpu0 

Steve

[kp206]

@stephenw10 Hey, sorry for the late reply, i've been working two jobs just to get by these days. I just had some free time to look.

I tried all of the settings.
Cryptographic Hardware:
AES-NI CPU-Based acceleration

Thermal Sensors:
Intel Core CPU on-die thermal sensor

Thanks you again @stephenw10

[stephenw10]

And it's not showing a value? Or attaching at boot?

Hard to imagine that CPU doesn't have the required digital sensors in the core.

[kp206]

@stephenw10

[kp206]

@kp206

[mvikman]

That CPU Type info looks weird...
Three single core CPUs...?

I have one 4-core CPU and CPU Type info shows:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

[stephenw10]

Indeed, no way that's supposed to be 3 CPUs!

I assume that's real hardware, not a VM? Do you have anything disabled in the BIOS?
That should be a 6 core (12 thread) CPU.
Whatever is causing that could well be hiding the thermal sensor interfaces too.

[Gertjan]

@stephenw10

A VM for sure.
Or a processor die with a split personality.
Or some serious hardware modding !

[kp206]

@stephenw10 oops, forgot to mention it was running on VM ESXI. But i didn't think that would matter. I was afraid that was the cause of my temp not reading. Bummer ;(

[kp206]

@gertjan yea, im running VM lol.

[mvikman]

I don't think there's any way to expose hardware sensor to a guest VM, hypervisor level only.

[stephenw10]

Yup, I've never seen a hypervisor expose the on die thermal sensors like that.

[kp206]

@stephenw10 I'm thinking it needs all CPU cores in order for the temps to work properly. Thanks for the help. Happy holidays!