A few years ago, a friend of mine had problems with his computer. It became unreliable; he would get odd errors, or the system would hang. He re-installed the operating system and his key applications ...
According to the data sheet, your board has a WinBond W83782D monitoring chip. In order to make everything work in 2.6, you'll need to build all of the i2c stuff (including the driver for you chip) ...
Despite working on wacky experiments all the time, I take my home lab management tasks seriously. As such, monitoring services, add-ons, and tools rank high on my list of mission-critical applications ...
I don't know about that particular model of IBM server - but, I have an IBM NetFinity 5600 which I tried to use with lm_sensors. Here is what I needed to do, your findings may be entirely ...