Hi, I recently upgraded my home network with two AQ107-based NICs and a multi-speed switch. Everything works great, but I couldn't help but notice very weird hwmon temperature output (which I wanted to use for monitoring and alerting).
Both cards identify as: $lspci -v -s 06:00.0 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Aquantia Corp. AQC107 NBase-T/IEEE 802.3bz Ethernet Controller [AQtion] (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. AQC107 NBase-T/IEEE 802.3bz Ethernet Controller [AQtion] In one machine lm_sensors says: eth0-pci-0200 Adapter: PCI adapter PHY Temperature: +315.1°C This seems quite wrong since the card is only slightly warm to the touch, and 315.1 is exactly 255 + 60.1 - the latter value feels more like the actual temperature. On a second machine it says: eth0-pci-0600 Adapter: PCI adapter PHY Temperature: +6977.0°C I feel qualified to say that is definitely wrong as well, since the machine is currently not melting its way to the earth's core, and also only slightly warm to the touch. :) Both cards also reported wrong values with kernel 5.2, but since I'm on 5.3.1 I might as well report the current wrongness. Do we know who's to blame here - motherboards, NICs, driver, kernel, hwmon infrastructure? I believe the hwmon patches landed first in 5.2. Thanks, Holger