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Re: Are All Drives Installed .

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On 2020-06-25 14:36, Arun Mathai wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> 
>   I own a Dell e6420 ,  and i had installed debian buster (mate).But the 
> brightness and wifi drivers and i assume the hdmi drivers were not 
> installed. How can i know that all the drivers for my device is installed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Arun Mathai


My daily driver is Debian 9 amd64 Xfce on a 2.5" SSD that I move between 
computers as needed.  It was primarily in a Dell Inspiron E1505 for many 
years, but I recently upgraded to a Dell Latitude E6520.


The Inspiron had Intel graphics.  I presume the Debian Installer 
installed the Intel graphics driver.  Graphics worked, including brightness.


The Latitude has Intel graphics and an NVIDIA card ("Optimus").  I 
disabled Optimus in the BIOS.  Graphics works, including brightness. 
But exploring with lspci(8), dmesg(1), /proc/modules, etc., I cannot 
tell if Debian is using Intel or NVIDIA (?).


I recall the Inspiron came with a Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter.  I changed it 
out for an Intel adapter.  It needed the following driver package:

firmware-iwlwifi


The Latitude came with an Intel Wi-Fi adapter.  It appears to be using 
the above driver, and it works:

2020-06-25 13:01:53 root@tinkywinky ~
# dmesg | grep wifi
[    9.838188] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have 
ASPM control
[    9.856867] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode
[    9.857132] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 18.168.6.1 
op_mode iwldvm
[    9.926992] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG disabled
[    9.927087] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS disabled
[    9.927187] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING disabled
[    9.927282] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) 
Advanced-N 6205 AGN, REV=0xB0
[    9.930845] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled
[    9.937749] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
[   10.210427] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0 wlp3s0: renamed from wlan0



STFW I found the following Dell web page.  Given the age of our Latitude 
computers (ca. 2012), it may not be of much use:

https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln151664/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-your-dell-pc


David

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Are All Drives Installed . Arun Mathai <arunkollannur10@gmail.com> - 2020-06-25 11:10 +0200
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