Bug 223944

Summary: Impossible to add battery while laptop is running
Product: Base System Reporter: Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak <vermaden>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-acpi (Nobody) <acpi>
Status: Closed Feedback Timeout    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: allanjude
Priority: ---    
Version: 11.1-RELEASE   
Hardware: amd64   
OS: Any   

Description Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak 2017-11-28 16:54:38 UTC
ThinkPad T420s (and many other laptops) support a UltraBay battery instead of a CD or HDD drive.

If You boot FreeBSD with this battery inside, everything works ok, but If You boot without it and then insert it as laptop is running already its not used by FreeBSD.

The error says its not configured:

% acpiconf -i 1
acpiconf: get battery info (1) failed: Device not configured

Similar problem when You switch that UltraBay battery to other ultrabay battery, the change is not detected.

Regards,
vermaden
Comment 1 Allan Jude freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-05-24 12:45:11 UTC
I have also seen this on my T530 with the extra battery attached via the bottom docking port.
Comment 2 Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak 2019-07-16 11:30:37 UTC
Any updates for 11.3-RELEASE on that topic?
Comment 3 Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak 2020-10-28 19:17:07 UTC
Laptop vendors mostly do not offer live replace batteries anymore.