Determine battery status and other woes.

[hvdkooij]

Hi,

I just got my PBP this week. And I was trying to determine the battery status.
For that I have seen some scripts online but it seems they refer to different battery types. They point to another battery device and not the cw2015-battery I have in the PBP.

And once the unit drains the battery and you restore power the Wifi interface seems be left disabled. Even toggling it and a reboot will not fix it.

The output of `acpi -V` is not very clear.

So it seems the specs of the PBP change per batch.

How can I diig up the relevant information?

Regards, Hugo.

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The battery status is in /sys/class/power_supply/cw2015-battery/capacity
That is the level in %.

But I haven't yet been able to restore WiFi. There is nothing on the WLAN adapter now.
Had the same issue yesterday. It took me a lot of tinkering to get it back on.

[hvdkooij]

$ pwd
/sys/class/power_supply
$ ls -l
totaal 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 11 jun 21:30 cw2015-battery -> ../../devices/platform/ff3d0000.i2c/i2c-4/4-0062/power_supply/cw2015-battery
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 18 jan 2013 dc-charger -> ../../devices/platform/dc-charger/power_supply/dc-charger
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 18 jan 2013 tcpm-source-psy-4-0022 -> ../../devices/platform/ff3d0000.i2c/i2c-4/4-0022/power_supply/tcpm-source-psy-4-0022
$ cd cw2015-battery
$ ls -l
totaal 0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 19 jun 05:22 capacity
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 19 jun 14:07 charge_counter
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 19 jun 05:22 charge_full
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 19 jun 05:22 charge_full_design
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 19 jun 05:22 current_now
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 19 jun 14:07 device -> ../../../4-0062
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 11 jun 21:30 hwmon4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 19 jun 14:07 power
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 19 jun 05:22 present
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 11 jun 21:30 status
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 11 jun 21:30 subsystem -> ../../../../../../../class/power_supply
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 19 jun 05:22 technology
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 19 jun 14:07 time_to_empty_now
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 11 jun 21:30 type
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 11 jun 21:30 uevent
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 19 jun 05:22 voltage_now
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 11 jun 21:30 wakeup9
$ cat capacity
40

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It seems Wifi is only started if I login as normall user on the graphical console.
Is there a way to change that?