Laptop Dell Latitude E6500
After my previous laptop being end-of-lease I got this one in May 2009.
Here is my setup experience of a Debian Squeeze.
Links
- Dell
- Official page
- Linux & E6500
- Debian Squeeze
- ISO
- Current squeeze kernel is 2.6.26-15 which is good as there was a fix for the touchpad integrated since 2.6.26-13:
Register DualPoint model found in Dell Latitude E6500 (Closes: #507958)
Hardware
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8600 (2.4GHz, 3M L2 Cache)
- vendor_id: GenuineIntel
- cpu family: 6
- model: 23
- model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz
- stepping: 10 (800 -> 2400?)
- cache size: 3072 KB
- flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon
- bogomips: 4787.96
- 2.0GB, DDR2-800 SDRAM, 2 DIMMS
- Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family)
- HD Audio Controller, PCI bridge: 4 Ports PCI Express, SMBus Controller, ISA bridge: ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller, 6 USB controllers, 2 USB2 controllers, SATA RAID Controller
- Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset (rev 07): Memory Controller Hub, Integrated Graphics Controller, Integrated Graphics Controller
- CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
- FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
- SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
- System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev ff)
- on USB: 0a5c:5800 Broadcom USH / Contacted SmartCard
- Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
- Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
- Screen 1280x800
- 8X DVD+/-RW
- 160GB Hard Drive, 5400RPM or 160GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM with Free Fall Sensor ??
- Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD ??
Power
- 9-Cell Battery Li-ion type:KY265 11.1V 85Wh
- 2xAC adaptors: 19.5V 90W and 130W
- Docking station
Physical connectors:
- left side
- USB Powershare
- USB/eSATA (for ext HD or E-Mod?)
- VGA
- EC PCMCIA slot??
- SD card reader
- back
- power input
- D?? unknown connector
- Ethernet plug hole
- Room for modem plug, but no modem installed
- bottom
- connector for docking station
- SIM card slot, empty, hidden behind the battery
- right side
- 2xUSB
- smartcard reader
- mic, headphone
- 1394
- wifi catcher button??
- wifi switch
- PCMCIA slot
- DVD +/-RW
not on my setup but can be found on other E6500 setups:
- no Bluetooth, no Baseband GSM, no Fingerprint reader
Drivers
As loaded by a USB-bootable Ubuntu:
- i915 (Intel Graphics)
- dcdbas (Dell Systems Management Base Driver)
- ricoh_mmc (Ricoh MMC Controller disabling driver)
- snd_hda_intel (Intel HDA driver)
- iwlagn, iwlcore, rfkill, led_class, mac80211, cfg80211
- wmi (ACPI-WMI Mapping Driver)
- intel_agp
- crc_t10dif
- e1000e (Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver)