Re: question about lshw

2012-10-11 Thread sara fink
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Doron Shikmoni do...@isoc.org.il wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:08 PM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote: Finally got to this issue. Here is the output of dmidecode regarding the battery. It shows 4 times portable battery (...) Looks like pretty much

Re: question about lshw

2012-10-10 Thread sara fink
Finally got to this issue. Here is the output of dmidecode regarding the battery. It shows 4 times portable battery Handle 0x0024, DMI type 22, 26 bytes Portable Battery Location: Location of the battery Manufacturer: Battery Manufacturer Manufacture Date: 01/01/2012

Re: question about lshw

2012-10-10 Thread Doron Shikmoni
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:08 PM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote: Finally got to this issue. Here is the output of dmidecode regarding the battery. It shows 4 times portable battery (...) Looks like pretty much the same. Now how do I check if this is indeed a 6 cell battery or less?

Re: question about lshw

2012-09-12 Thread sara fink
Thanks. I will check dmidecode and report back. On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Doron Shikmoni do...@isoc.org.il wrote: Hello Sara, A couple comments: 1. lshw takes (most of) its data out of DMI, and interprets some of it based on hardcoded constants. This might translate into incorrect

Re: question about lshw

2012-09-11 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Hello Sara, A couple comments: 1. lshw takes (most of) its data out of DMI, and interprets some of it based on hardcoded constants. This might translate into incorrect interpretation for some of the info, in this case, the battery's chemistry or the number of batteries. Another possibility is

question about lshw

2012-09-09 Thread sara fink
I ran lshw and found out about the battery of the laptop that it has 4 cells. It appears as battery 0, battery 1, battery 2, battery 3. However, based on the model of the battery it is supposed to be 6 cells. I was wondering which one is correct. The model of the battery is Samsung AA-PB9NC6B