Enabling ACPI on TM 4002 NLCi

Hi I have Acer TM 4002 NLCi (same as WMLi).

I cannot see the battery status neither the system goes into hibernate or power off mode. A partial acpi is working though. I am using fedora core 3 with kernel version 2.6.9-1.667

I understand that a great work has been done in regard to smart batteries in this section. Thus would like to see the simplest method by which i can get my battery status check. applying patches is no problem, but compiling kernel etc would be a tough task, i am no linux guru. So please keep it simple and descriptive

Please bare and share the knowledge.
Thx
Alice

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