Closed phrxmd closed 3 years ago
The system recognizes that a sensor is there (it detects a hwmon
tree through the name
file) - however then it fails to read an actual temperature from the sensor. The sensor is related to the built-in wifi card, which creates trouble when it overheats; maybe the temperature readout needs the wifi driver to be initialized.
There was an additional check on the config before thinkfan starts to operate for real. That check did not honour the optional:
setting. I've now fixed that in the current master. Could you please try that out and see if it fixes your problem?
This should be fixed with the 1.2.2 release
Hi,
I am running thinkfan 1.2.1 under OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and have this in my
/etc/thinkfan.conf
:On bootup, systemd fails to bring up the thinkfand service with an error message related to the
iwlwifi
sensor, even though theoptional
keyword should supposedly prevent exactly that. Only when the system has fully booted up and I bring it up manually, it works: