smb issue

[Tamouh H.]

> 
> After loading ichsmb, smbus and smb, dmesg reports:
> 
> ichsmb0: <Intel 82801DC (ICH4) SMBus controller> port 
> 0x1880-0x189f irq 10 at device 31.3 on pci0
> ichsmb0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> smbus0: <System Management Bus> on ichsmb0
> smb0: <SMBus generic I/O> on smbus0
> 
> 
> Then, mbmon -d -S gives:
> 
> [root at weld:/usr/home/sveinhal]$ mbmon -d -S 
> SMBus[Intel8XX(ICH/ICH2/ICH3/ICH4/ICH5/ICH6)] found, but No 
> HWM available on it!!
> InitMBInfo: Device not configured
> 
> smbmsg -p gives:
> 
> [root at weld:/usr/home/sveinhal]$ smbmsg -p Probing for devices 
> on /dev/smb0:
> Device @0x2c: rw
> *waiting, and waiting*
> ^C
> 
> dmesg then shows hundreds of these:
> 
> ichsmb0: device timeout, status=0x41
> 
> 
> Any clue?
> 
> 

I've had that same problem on one machine, still unresolved. Someone else actually got it working by unloading smbus from kernel !!