Dell Inspiron 1521 - ArchWiki

# Dell Inspiron 1521

The following is what I have found while using Arch on my Inspiron 1521. User experience may vary.

## Hardware Specifications

### lspci Output

    00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
    00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1)
    00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
    00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
    00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
    00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
    00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
    00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
    00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
    00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
    00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
    00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
    00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
    00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
    00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
    00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
    00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
    00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
    00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
    01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
    03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
    03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
    03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
    03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
    03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
    0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)

### lsusb Output

    Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
    Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
    Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
    Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
    Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
    Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001

## Installation

I worked through this HowTo: Beginners' guide

## Kernel

The stock Arch kernel works just fine.

## Networking

My Network was extremely slow. This was caused by an IPv6 problem. After adding the following line in the `/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf` everything was ok.

    alias net-pf-10 off

### Wired

Works out of the box.

### Wireless

#### Broadcom Corporation BCM4311

Install broadcom-wlAUR from AUR.

For getting the network up automatically, I copied the file `/etc/network.d/examples/wpa.example` (take the example file for your use case) into the directory `/etc/network.d/` and renamed it (e.g. `wlan_profile`) and edited it. Then I added the following line to `/etc/rc.conf`:

    NETWORKS=(wlan_profile)

And added the following daemon in the `/etc/rc.conf`:

    DAEMONS=( ... net-profiles ... )

### Modem

I have not tried the modem to see if it works.

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