Although you describe yourself as Linux newbie, the site you found is I think the best information you will find.
I would try to follow the receipt under “Other Distrubtions” and build the kernel module.
On the page there is “Ensure you have lm_sensors, DKMS, kernel sources, GCC etc installed” so likely you have to install:
- The devel_kernel pattern
- The devel_C_C++ pattern
- libsensors4-devel
- dkms