Actually, it will charge without apm. But apm is always a good idea.
- Andrew
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> From: Tels [mailto:perl_dummy@bloodgate.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 1:41 PM
> To: Christian, Andrew
> Cc: ipaq@handhelds.org; Eric M. Smith
> Subject: RE: [iPAQ] My L.E.D.s don't appear to work.
>
>
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> Moin,
>
> On 16-Apr-02 Christian, Andrew carved into stone:
> > No flash, no charge. Check your kernel version ("uname -a"). The
> > default Familiar installation comes with an older kernel. The most
> > stable kernel to upgrade to is the latest 2.4.17 (try
> > ftp://lorien.handhelds.org/pub/linux/feeds/2.4.17).
>
> Apart from having at least 2.4.17 (I have a 2.4.18 with a
> H3870 and it works fine) you also need to load the module apm:
>
> modprobe apm
>
> Otherwise it won't charge. Check with
>
> cat /proc/apm
>
> whether you have apm support or not. After modprobe apm you
> should see your battery status there.
>
> And don't forget to
>
> ipkg install h3600-utils
>
> if you haven't them already (new kernel => new kernel modules etc!).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tels
>
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