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I got myself this one and installed the latest arch iso on it (2008.6). The problem is there is no networking interface. ifconfig -a gives me only the lo device. The Laptop uses an Intel G45 Express chipset. Please tell me which module I have to probe to get my ethernet working.
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You have to use the latest (not yet officially released) arch installation images as only these support the new intel chipset (and your NIC) and wireless cards.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57260
Worked on a Dell Latitude e6400 so there should be no problems with your laptop.
Last edited by hightower (2008-10-29 14:55:28)
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I recently bought this laptop and I'm planning to install Arch Linux on it.
Did you (or anyone who has the same laptop) any major problems with the hardware? Tips/Tricks to get some things to work properly?
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I have an E6400 and did not run into any major issues. I have the nvidia graphics, and I'm using the 177 xx drivers, and while they work fine there seem to be some glitches, especially when i'm watching a movie or switching tabs in firefox quickly. If you have the Dell 1510 wireless card you will need the drivers from broadcom.
I have not tested the sd card, displayport, esata, or firewire ports though. everything else seems to work!
And make sure to use the 12.2008 iso so you will have wired network at the very least.
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I had the same issues with my E6500, but the ArchBoot cd worked fine with my wired network card.
Couldn't get ArchBoot to do an FTP/Network install (it couldn't get the packages list for some reason), but a CD install worked fine, and I had networking on reboot once I set eth0 to use dhcp in the rc.conf file.
I'm still struggling with the wireless, but that's because I have the Intel 5300 Wifi card on board.
Chris
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does the intel 5300 not get picked up? i thought that was a recently supported card. i'm having issues with my broadcom card, but i can't find many alternatives because it is a half-height mini-pci express card. and there don't seem to be too many of those size/type of cards around...
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Thanks for all the replies. As soon as my examinations are over I'll give it a try!
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does the intel 5300 not get picked up? i thought that was a recently supported card. i'm having issues with my broadcom card, but i can't find many alternatives because it is a half-height mini-pci express card. and there don't seem to be too many of those size/type of cards around...
Though it is a supported device I've had issues with it not showing up as a recognized interface on my Arch 64 machine. There are posted work arounds on a number of linux forums, including here in the Arch community, but I could only get it working on Arch 32.
Chris
Last edited by iggyst00ge (2009-03-09 15:59:10)
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I'll be getting one of these machines at work soon. How's suspend/hibernate on them?
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on my e6400 suspend works fine, but i get a "pop" coming from the speakers.
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Yup, they both work fine. But as loudtiger said, you here a "pop" (:D) that sounds like - how do you call it - ground-noise?
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although, back in .27 there was no pop.
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I recently got an E6500, no problems so far, except for some missing RAM. I have 4GB, the bios says 4019MB are available, but the OS (x86_64) sees only 3879:
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3879 466 3412 0 17 140
-/+ buffers/cache: 307 3571
Swap: 1953 22 1930
Any ideas?
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I recently got an E6500, no problems so far, except for some missing RAM. I have 4GB, the bios says 4019MB are available, but the OS (x86_64) sees only 3879:
$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3879 466 3412 0 17 140 -/+ buffers/cache: 307 3571 Swap: 1953 22 1930
Any ideas?
My Gateway p-6860 is the same way. I just figured that it was reserving some due to system demands.
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