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kr1$

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Registered: 2022-07-18

Posts: 4

External Powerbank not being detected on arch

Hi, normally you'd plug in an external harddrive and go `df -h` or `sudo fdisk -l`, find the name of the device and then mount it somehow. However with a power bank, nothing that could conceivably be the power bank shows up with these commands.

Does anyone know how to go about 'mounting/enabling' an external powerbank on arch? Needless to say current behavior is that you plug it in and nothing happens.

I'm running arch on an msi alpha 15 with a Winx power bank. Any light anyone could shine on this would be much appreciated, I'm in South Africa and we're having ridiculous power outages atm.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: External Powerbank not being detected on arch

That laptop can't accept power over USB.
If it could it would just work without anything showing up as a device.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,206

Re: External Powerbank not being detected on arch

What do you expect to happen? It's a power bank, it will be charging/charged when you plug it in. To check whether anything at all is detected you can check e.g.

dmesg -W

before plugging it in.

kr1$

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Registered: 2022-07-18

Posts: 4

Re: External Powerbank not being detected on arch

I expected my battery life to go up instead of down. This should be bleeding obvious @V1del.
But thanks @Slithery for your answer.