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brims
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 Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:17 pm Post subject: Battery Information Utility |
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| I own a Fujitsu N3010 laptop, I am looking for a utility that allows me to read the manufacturing date and other information off of my battery. Does anyone have any information that could help me out? Thank you. |
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gonzzor
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Take a look at the battery, there might be a text there..
You can get some info from the files in
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/
| Code: | cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
present: yes
design capacity: 72000 mWh
last full capacity: 73500 mWh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 11100 mV
design capacity warning: 7200 mWh
design capacity low: 2181 mWh
capacity granularity 1: 720 mWh
capacity granularity 2: 720 mWh
model number: DELL 0002P6
serial number: 236
battery type: LION
OEM info: Sanyo
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You need to have ACPI and Battery avaible from the kernel to get this information...
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brims
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I have that information, now, but unfortunately it doesn't have the date it was made. This information does not exist on the outside of the battery either. The reason I want to know when it was made is that LIon batteries have a life of 3 years from manufacturing. I'm going to see if there are any tables of serial numbers and dates online. Thank you for the information. |
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brims
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| There is an SMBus system in laptop batteries that holds the information I need, I have yet to figure out how to retrieve this data. http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-47.htm I read something about I2C being able to do this, but everything I read relating to I2C seems to show it isn't what I want, I could be wrong thoug. There are about 5 supported chipsets in the kernel. If this is what I want, can someone point me in the right direction to retrieving this data. Thank you for your time. |
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brims
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| What happened to all the knowledgable people on this forum that used to help people? There are many posts that go unanswered, from me and others I know and others I don't know. We aren't all as highly skilled as some people that use GNU/Linux, like me I know many are trying to gets the skills they need. |
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brims
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| Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| I'm trying to install lm_sensors but I need to enable CONFIG_I2C_SENSOR which I cannot find. Where is this located? I try to change it in the .config file but when I load the file or just do make oldconfig I look at the file and it says "# CONFIG_I2C_SENSOR is not set". Thanks. |
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brims
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| Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Well as far as I'm concerned, the task I'm trying to do is impossible. |
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