Dell Lattitude CPx Battery Shutdown

[Rick Johnson <rjohnson medata com>]

I've tried both an upgrade and a fresh install. It appears that when I 
boot up with the battery in, the system will shut down shortly after 
detecting file systems (modprobe time?).

If the battery is ejected, the system will boot all the way. Is there 
anything else I need to test for in order to bugzilla this? The behavior 
is reproducable, I just don't know exactly when. Can ACPI be disabled to 
test if that's the case?

Also - cannot seem to compile the madwifi driver - no vmlinux exists 
with /lib/modules/<version>/build - should there? The driver has 
exceptions for a 2.6 kernel within the Makefile, but I'm not familiar 
enough with 2.6 to know what's right/wrong just yet.
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Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson medata com
Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. (from home)
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