...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.
Total Comments 3
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You should be able to do 1024x600. At least mine does with Ubuntu 8.10.Quote:The display seems to be at 800x600
Encrypted private directory? Are you talking about the Dell partition?Quote:I immediately put in Xubuntu 8.10 alternative cd so that I could get the encrypted private directory
I'm guessing these are the same drivers. The wl is Broadcom's proprietary Linux driver. In theory the b43 driver should work, but my experience with that one is iffy.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 
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@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
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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
