Dell Studio 17

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I am about to swap out my Inspiron 9300 for a Studio 17 which has an ATI HD 3650, Intel WiFi Link 5300, Wireless 370 Bluetooth Module and an unknown internal Ethernet (10/100/1000). Has anyone installed openSUSE 11.1 on this hardware and was it good or bad?

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HCL/Laptops/Dell - openSUSE

I almost certain oldcpu has one of these. PM him if he doesn’t spot this;)

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I have a Dell Studio 15 (ie with a 15" and not a 17" screen). But they are mostly similar.

I have most things running under Linux. The only things I have either not tested, or have not been successful in running are:

  • HDMI (HDMI video works, HDMI audio does not work)
  • blue tooth (not tested)
  • firewire (not tested)
  • a couple of the custom keys
  • two integrated mics
  • dual head mode works intermittently. I have not figured out the cause/effect yet

Thats my Studio 15 in the openSUSE HCL.

I had help from one of the alsa sound dev’s to get the sound working.

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oldcpu - Thanks for the info, do you know what the Internal Ethernet card is?

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Not offhand. The internal Ethernet card does work, as I had it plugged in during the install, and I have used the internal ethernet “card” not only at home with our home wired network, but also at a couple of hotel rooms during our recent trip to Canada.

I’m at work now (and the laptop is at home) and immediately after work my wife and I have a house warming party for our new apartment, so it won’t be until later this weekend that I’ll be able to switch on the laptop.

But I do note this thread on the Dell Studio 15: Dell Studio 1535 - hardware details, Fedora 10, Ubuntu 8.10 - Notebook Forums and Laptop Discussion
where the Dell Studio 1535 is one version of the Dell Studio 15 (mine is a Dell Studio 1537). In this they note the internal ethernet device is a:
(5348:5784:4136:596) pci, tg3, NETWORK, NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIeand they linked to this page: Show Box - Dell Studio 1535

I won’t be able to confirm what internal wired ethernet device is in my laptop until later in the weekend (as noted above).

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I found this old post of mine where I listed the output of lspci and lsusb:
openSUSE Forums - View Single Post - Planning for new laptop

As you can see the internal wired ethernet device is also a Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1698].