No Fan Control For Raspberry Pi 5

Hello all,

I recently got a Raspberry Pi 5 and was able to succsessfully get it to boot Kali Linux from a NVME drive. However, no matter what I try to do, I can’t seem to use or control the fan that is plugged in to the board. I’ve looked all over online, and I wasn’t able to find anything to help with this particular problem.

I was wondering if anyone knew of any resources and/or fixes for this particular problem.

Thanks in advance,
Dallin

As I have been digging, I can see that some programs are able to see something. For example, kismet is able to see it as “pwmfan-isa-0000-fan1-ISA adapter” and is able to read that it is at 0 RPM.

Does anyone know how I could tap into that for some fan control?

for monitoring you can use lm-sensors package which should also install the fancontrol package, they are in the Debian repo so should be in the Kali repo too;

 sudo apt update && sudo apt install lm-sensors

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/control-fan-speed