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Dell Latitude L400 P3 700MHZ ULTRA THIN LAPTOP NOTEBOOK

I currently have DSL 1.5 installed on the above laptop and I would like to upgrade to DSL 2.2.  It seems that reverting to a early kernel from 2.0 has resolved some wireless card issues I was having with DSL 2.0 and 2.1.  However there is still one item I would like to get working if possible, the battery indicator.  Running from the live CD dsl norestore disk I cannot get the battery indicator to show anything while using the battery or AC.  In addition I see the following errors that point to a some problem.

amp: overridden by ACPI
insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o init-module: No such device    (however the file DOES exist)

It also indicates that parameters or interrupts might be incorrect and to check dmesg for additional errors.

Checking the system stat dmesg tab I find this error
i8253 count too high resetting

This is repeated multiple times.

Additional information is provided about the amp BIOS

amp BIOS version 1.2 flags 0x03 (Driver Version 1.16)

While it is not essential tha the battery indicator works it sure would be nice.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Your laptop is using ACPI. DSL-2.0 and DSL-2.1b support ACPI. You can use DSL-2.1b and wmacpi_1.99r7.dsl for battery indicator. Please read this thread for more detail.
hs7sv - thanks for the pointing me to the information related to this topic.  I was hoping to go to DSL 2.2 on the DELL laptop because of wireless card issues I was having using 2.0 and 2.1.  But this gives me some things to try and see if I can find something that will work.  I will let you know the results.
hs7sv - I followed the thread you suggested and it works as you said.  Cool!! But I am still struggling with my wireless card on 2.1b so I will see if I can resolve that issue. The card works fine on the earlier kernel but maybe I can figure out what the issue is.  Thanks again for pointing out the thread for the battery indicator.
what wireless card?
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