Hi everybody!
I have installed Slackware 10.1 with kernel 2.6.11.8 on my Acer TravelMate 2300 laptop and everything went fine , except battery and modem.
1-When i try to see my battery status using acpid it gives an error saying that the device is busy.When i go to Control Center , and go to battery it gives me a "Partial ACPI Installation".I have compiled my kernel several times just for battery to work.The first time i installed only ACPI (not APM) and everything as modules.The second time (as the first didn't work) i installed all the options into the kernel ( the "*" option).The same error msg.Any ideas?
2-The second problem has to do with the modem.I know this can be resolved , because i had it working before ( before formatting , because i wanted to try Fedora , but didn't like it so returned to slack ).I hava a "WinModem" and before formatting , i just downloaded the drivers from linmoedem.org (the HSF modem drivers) and after installing it created a link to /dev/modem and everything worked.Now (after formatting) i did the same exact things , installed the prog and when i give hsfconfig (the command for configuring the modem) it says "device not found".How is this possible??If u have any ideas on how to solve this problems please answer.Thanks in advance.

WinModems with Linux

This may help.

Moreover, regarding the battery problem, did you try compiling another kernel?

Now the modem works fine.As for the battery i have tried with kernel 2.4 and 2.6.11.8.Any other idea?

Did you enabled AC Adaptor and Control Method Battery in ACPI kernel options?

Yes , during the compilation i enabled ACPI support(disabled APM) and installed all the other things(ac,battery etc) as modules and i can load them all but when i want to see battery status under control center (or either using cat at /proc/...) it gives me "Partial ACPI installation".I'm counfused

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