Dell Vostro 1400 fan speed

Question

I am not able to get lm_sensors to detect the fan speed, so I installed i8kmon and i8kutils and modprobe i8k force=1 to load the module.
Now the sensor applet tells me that my fan speed for Fan1 is around 27000 RPM and for Fan2 it's around 10000 RPM, while both cores of the CPU are around 50 C.
I've never thought of monitoring fan speed until today, but the figures just seem way too great...
I guess I am not doing it the right way. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

zendude;2862314 Wrote:
> Try to load the driver tg3.ko and see if it works with this driver and
> you boot from the cd (pxe will not work because you can't get out of
> linuxrc, actually you might be able to do it, but I found the menu to
> be really confusing. Go It looks like is a broadcom 59xx series.>
Code:
> > # modprobe tg3
> >
> If the driver tg3 works then you need to add the newid option in the
> append section of the isolinux.cfg or linuxrc.config. Check the
> forums for more info about newid option.
I have loaded this driver and added the newid=0x14e4 0x1713 but still
no luck. Still can not ping the Zenworks server or do anything. The
Network lights stay lit when it tries to obtain an IP address for eth0.
I read on another site that you need to update the initrd with the new
tg3.ko driver. I will try this later tonight and see what happens.
Cheers
Chadinsky