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