"Waiting to charge" on Treeya and Swanky

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I’ve got the UEFI firmware and successfully installed Linux on both an older Swanky and a newer Treeya-QCDF. In Xubuntu 24.04 on both machines, the battery widget shows “Waiting to Charge.” Guessing this was an Ubuntu issue, I installed Debian 12 Bookworm on the Treeya, and it also doesn’t charge.

Is there a dance I have to do to reset the power controller or something of that sort? Did the years of neglect manage to completely trash batteries on both of these machines? Should I try Arch or some other distro?

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Replaced the battery on Swanky and it appears to charge and run off the battery, so I’m going to assume it’s the same deal on Treeya.