[ltp] Heads Up: Battery Recall

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:10:54 +0000


Paul Fisher wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> These models may have shipped with either 6-cell or 9-cell batteries; only
>> the 9-cell batteries with the part number FRU P/N 92P1131 are being
>> recalled.
> 
> For those of you using Gnome Power Manager on the most recent version,
> you can open "Power Information" and in the "Device Information" tab,
> expand the "more" section to view the FRU without removing the battery
> or trying to dig through commands.
>

Or, just:
   cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
The FRU number appears to be called the "Model number" here.

Richard