I am also having the same problem on an HP dv-3500 series laptop. It doesn't appear that acpi is correctly determining the status. I am seeing the same thing as Scott:
$ acpi -ab Battery 0: Unknown, 82% Adapter 0: off-line
I am also having the same problem on an HP dv-3500 series laptop. It doesn't appear that acpi is correctly determining the status. I am seeing the same thing as Scott:
$ acpi -ab
Battery 0: Unknown, 82%
Adapter 0: off-line