what can be done with a notebook battery via I2C

[Frantisek Rysanek]

Dear everyone,

I have updated my page about assisting notebook "smart battery"
refurbishments via I2C from Linux at
http://sweb.cz/Frantisek.Rysanek/battery.html

The software is largely relying on the i2c and lm_sensors packages from
http://www.lm_sensors.nu.

Apart from the old section about the BQ2092, I have added another section
about the BQ2040.

To reset a BQ2040, you need to tap its external Flash EEPROM
- some of the software included can be used for talking to 24C01 & family
(I2C Flash EEPROMs) in general, not just in-circuit in Smart Batteries.

I have composed a bootable battery refurbishment CD, useable on
virtually any IBM PC cabable of CDrom boot and having a viable parallel port.
Imagine that - no kernel compilation fuss just to get I2C access
to your battery, all the tools sitting there together.
Unfortunately, because of the limitations imposed by my freeweb provider,
I cannot put the ~7Meg CD on my web (a targzipped 18meg .iso.)
If someone has <10Megs of free web space to share, I'd be very happy to
finally put the CD on the web.

The old way obviously works - you have to download the building
blocks and compile everything from source on your own Linux system.
The recipe and some code are on my web.

Frank Rysanek

 

[Werner Heuser]

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I have updated my page about assisting notebook "smart battery"
refurbishments via I2C from Linux at
http://sweb.cz/Frantisek.Rysanek/battery.html

Hi Frank,

your tool looks great. You asked for webspace for the ISO image,
please consider my page http://tuxmobil.org - Linux On Mobile Devices

Werner

 

[Frantisek Rysanek]

Dear fellow USENETers,

thanks to everyone who offered help.
Several people offered to store my CD - now I guess it's a work
in progress.

There was a message from someone called stefano <[email protected]>
who forgot to remove the spambuster in a personal mail (or perhaps
I missed his personal address somewhere in the message body).
To Stefano: thanks for help, too, and don't hesitate to contact me if you
have specific questions. On the USENET, you seem to be chatty about
various different brands and models of notebooks - I'm curious about
your results with my battery software.

Frank Rysanek

P.S.: sorry about the cross-posting. If some group maintainer feels offended
by my choice of groups for the topic, let me know.

 

[Frantisek Rysanek]

thanks to everyone who offered help.

Several people offered to store my CD - now I guess it's a work
in progress.

The CD is now online, you can choose from a few download sites.
http://sweb.cz/Frantisek.Rysanek/battery.html

Frank Rysanek