Is anyone else running suse SLED 10. I'm running it on a t60p 87410-A11. I just upgraded from 10 to SLED 10 sp1 and now I'm getting this in my /var/log/boot.msg

"Starting ThinkePad Battery daemon insmod: error inserting '/opt/thinkpad/install/batinfo.ko': -1 Invalid module format"

The lenovo battery management software stopped working.

I haven't been able to find out anything on it at the novell or lenovo sites. I'm thinking I can't be the only person who's running SLED 10 on a t60p.

I did find something here (mail.matrix.de/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2006-August/035547.html) that makes me think it's related to the kernel upgrade I just did.

(btw - I had originally tried running opensuse 10.2 instead of the paid for SLED 10, but I wanted the lenovo battery utils to work then.)

Has anyone seen this?
Does anyone have any ideas for a workaround?
thanks.
-Media1mogul

Find out which package supplies the /opt/thinkpad/install/batinfo.ko file.
You may need to update the package. Go to the YaST2 software management program (kdesu yast2 sw_single) and enter the package in the search field. Right click on the package in the right-hand side pane and select update. This may install the batinfo.ko kernel module for the kernel you are using.

While you are at it, you could select "Repository" in the drop down box, and then select your main 10.1 repository. Then in the right-hand pane, right click and select "All in this lists..." --> "Update if newer is available". That might take care of a lot of orphaned packages.

If that doesn't work, go to http://rpm.pbone.net, click on advanced search and set the filter for SuSE 10.1. Then search for this package or the batinfo.ko file.

Another possibility is that you need to update the kernel. There may be a corresponding package supplying the batinfo.ko file for an updated kernel.

Also, look in /usr/share/doc/packages/<thePackage>/ for a README file that may tell you what you need to do to.

I have the same issue with the battery info not working for SUSE SLED 10 SP1 on a T60p. The power management modules are kernel-specific. We may be out of luck until Lenovo provides a new package...

--Golden