[ltp] Battery management

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:47:14 +0100


On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 17:17:33 +0100, Ignacio Fern?ndez Galv?n wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In my ThinkPad R51 there used to be a bit of drain in the battery when  
> powered off, maybe 2-3% in one day. I shut down the computer at 100%  
> charge (according to gkrellm) and, when I turned it on the next day, it  
> was at 96-98%. I took that as normal (it was not suspended or hibernated,  
> just plain powered off)
> 
> However since a few days, it does not happen anymore, everytime I boot up  
> the computer it's at 100%. If that's true, it's fine, but I'm worried  

Maybe something like wake on ring or wake on LAN was activated in the
BIOS before, causing some hardware (Ethernet PHY, modem) not be powered
off completely? I'm not an expert in this area, but I read something
like this a while ago.

Regards,
Tino