...a rambling aside to life in general.
Inspiron Mini 9 is in the he-ouse.
Posted 12-17-2008 at 10:31 AM by PresGas
Okay, so I got the machine in late yesterday and this morn, I immediately put in Xubuntu 8.10 alternative cd so that I could get the encrypted private directory without much hassle. Also, I kinda wanted the surprise of seeing what I would boot up to and what would be available. I am now writing this entry from it.
Here is the lshw output (removed USB stuff:
Looks like the broadcom chip in 8.10 is using the wl driver family, but jockey will offer loading of the Broadcom SDA wireless driver. This default driver gets me on an open G WAP and looks like if offers the appropriate dialogs for WPA 2 enterprise, but I have a B WAP at home...so we will see how that works tonight!
The display seems to be at 800x600 *shiver* and I am not able to use xfce-s display control panel to increase that resolution. Time to dive into some googleing and fancy forum searching.
I will write more as I discover it.
Here is the lshw output (removed USB stuff:
Code:
starblood description: Portable Computer product: Inspiron 910 vendor: Dell Inc. version: A01 width: 32 bits capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 smp-1.4 smp configuration: boot=oem-specific chassis=portable cpus=1 *-core description: Motherboard product: CN0J14 vendor: Dell Inc. physical id: 0 version: A01 slot: � *-firmware description: BIOS vendor: Dell Inc. physical id: 1 version: A01 (09/15/2008) size: 100KiB capacity: 1984KiB capabilities: pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect acpi usb smartbattery biosbootspecification *-cpu description: CPU product: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 5 bus info: cpu@0 version: 6.12.2 serial: 0001-06C2-0000-0000-0000-0000 slot: U1 size: 1600MHz capacity: 2048MHz width: 32 bits clock: 533MHz capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr lahf_lm cpufreq configuration: id=0 *-cache:0 description: L1 cache physical id: 6 slot: L1 Cache size: 32KiB capacity: 32KiB capabilities: asynchronous internal write-back *-cache:1 description: L2 cache physical id: 7 slot: L2 Cache size: 512KiB capacity: 4MiB capabilities: burst external write-back *-logicalcpu:0 description: Logical CPU physical id: 0.1 width: 32 bits capabilities: logical *-logicalcpu:1 description: Logical CPU physical id: 0.2 width: 32 bits capabilities: logical *-memory description: System Memory physical id: 10 slot: System board or motherboard size: 1GiB capacity: 1GiB *-bank description: SODIMM Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns) physical id: 0 slot: M1 size: 1GiB width: 32 bits clock: 533MHz (1.9ns) *-display:0 UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 *-display:1 UNCLAIMED description: Display controller product: Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 *-multimedia description: Audio device product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1b bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0 version: 02 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel *-network description: Wireless interface product: BCM4312 802.11b/g vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: eth1 version: 01 serial: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl ip=192.168.1.2 latency=0 module=wl multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg *-pci:2 description: PCI bridge product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1c.2 bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.2 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pcieport-driver *-network description: Ethernet interface product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0 logical name: eth0 version: 02 serial: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa capacity: 1GB/s width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no module=r8169 multicast=yes port=twisted pair *-pci:3 description: PCI bridge product: 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1e bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0 version: e2 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list *-isa description: ISA bridge product: 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1f bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 *-ide description: IDE interface product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1f.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1 logical name: scsi0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: ide bus_master emulated configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0 module=ata_piix *-disk description: ATA Disk product: STEC PATA 16GB vendor: Seagate physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda version: D522 serial: STM0000821E8 size: 14GiB (15GB) *-serial UNCLAIMED description: SMBus product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1f.3 bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz configuration: latency=0 *-battery product: Dell vendor: Dell physical id: 1 slot: Rear capacity: 22000mWh configuration: voltage=14.8V *-network DISABLED description: Ethernet interface physical id: 2 logical name: pan0 serial: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa capabilities: ethernet physical configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes
The display seems to be at 800x600 *shiver* and I am not able to use xfce-s display control panel to increase that resolution. Time to dive into some googleing and fancy forum searching.
I will write more as I discover it.
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Quote:The display seems to be at 800x600
Quote:I immediately put in Xubuntu 8.10 alternative cd so that I could get the encrypted private directory
Quote:Looks like the broadcom chip in 8.10 is using the wl driver family, but jockey will offer loading of the Broadcom SDA wireless driverPosted 12-17-2008 at 01:31 PM by Hangdog42 -
@Hangdog42
Yeah, I have discovered most of this, and I was lying about the resolution...'cause it was 1024x600.
I was talking about the encrypted private directory feature in 8.10:
Finally, you are right, but something got borked somewhere and jockey still offered those drivers to me. I figured it out when I had them deactivated and had no wireless at all.Posted 12-18-2008 at 11:18 AM by PresGas -
Thanks for the link to the encrypted directory. I had no idea something like that was built into Ubuntu.
Posted 12-19-2008 at 04:17 PM by Hangdog42