I’ve a couple of machines running Centos 5 on Via Epia motherboards.

Sadly kernel versions up to and including 2.6.18 dont ship with the required vt1211 (Broken link http://hem.bredband.net/ekmlar/vt1211.html) kernel module. This means that both Centos and Redhat Enterprise 5 lack the module required to gather sensors data. Because it is a bit of a chore to patch the kernel source and compile the driver any I compile I’ll keep here.

i686 Kernels

• 2.6.18-8.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.el5-i686.ko.gz)
• 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5-i686.ko.gz)
• 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5-i686.ko.gz)
• 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.1.4.el5-i686.ko.gz)
• 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5-i686.ko.gz)
• 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 (Broken link http://usefulthings.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/vt1211-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5-i686.ko.gz)

Documenting the use of this module is beyond the scope of this post, for information regarding that please see the home page for lm_sensors (Broken link ~~http://www.lm-sensors.org/~~).

Many thanks to Lars Ekman for writing and maintaining this module!

I quite like this wonky old bridge, the hand rail seems to be a popular place for the gulls to sit and let the world go by.

Off we went to Fairford the other weekend for a nice sunday of rain and grey skies. Some good flying happened though and I got some nice pics, some of which you can see here

A few weeks (months?) ago we spent a weekend in the Malvern Hills, after climbing to the top, and coming back down from British Camp we found this nice shady place to rest for a bit.

I love all the grass being thrown up by the down wash from the rotors in this.

Pretty little light aircraft landing at Bembridge, its a Aerotechnik EV-97A Eurostar according to this.

Took the savvy down to the beach in Ryde, lots of fun, but also lots of cleaning afterwards 🙁

We took advantage of the nice weather on Sunday to tryout one of the walks in our book, this was a circular walk from Yarmouth out via Freshwater and back via Golden Hill Fort and Fort Victoria. Also gave me a chance to make a google map of the route 🙂

On holiday! Took this with my camera phone while enjoying a beer and waiting for the fireworks to start which marked the end of the Ryde Regatta.

Flipped the savvy and bent a chunk of the carb.Sigh.