How to install I2C driver

Hi currently I'm trying to interface an imu sensor stick - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10724 to an embeded system(odroid-x) running on ubuntu 12.04 ,3.6.0 kernel .I had read before that I will need to install a I2C driver to allow this interface and wonder how I can do that.Many thanks inadvance

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check if it's loaded with the kernel

lsmod | grep i2c

nothing shows up when i enter - lsmod | grep i2c How do I load i2c into kernel?

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You may need to install lmsensors

once installed, invoke the install script as root, with

sensors-detect

and you should have i2c module installed.

Regards Glenn

Hi and had installed the lm sensor but when i tried to sudo sensors-detect , /sys/bus/pci/devices: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/sensors-detect line 2900 was shown anyone know how I can fix this problem?

OK, to get i2c to load with system start, add the module name to the list in,

/etc/modprobe.preload

# /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
# this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY
# for old kernel use /etc/modules
max6650
#psmouse
snd_usb_audio
snd_seq_oss
it87
rfcomm
gpm-data
evdev