No Sound No Network on new Dell E6420

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Bill_Gates
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No Sound No Network on new Dell E6420

#1 Post by Bill_Gates »

I’ve tried both lupu-511 and lupu-528. Network wizard says “Puppy cannot see any active network interfaces
-Bill

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#2 Post by greengeek »

Hi Bill, it may be that your hardware needs newer drivers than are available in normal Lupu. Have you tried Lupu-Plus? It's available here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 054#622054

If that does not help I would recommend trying ThinSlacko here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=78228
It seems to handle a wide range of hardware, although not intended for PAE needs (although there is a PAE version of Slacko available).

Another goody is RacyNOP which does handle PAE if needed. It's quite good with new hardware. This link goes to a newly modified version of RacyNOP:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81031

By the way - I didn't like your Windows Vista. Puppy is so much better.

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#3 Post by Bill_Gates »

greengeek wrote:
By the way - I didn't like your Windows Vista. Puppy is so much better.
Thanks greengeek for the info. I will take a look at that stuff.

By-the-way, we try not to talk about Vista too much around here anymore! :oops:
-Bill

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#4 Post by cthisbear »

Running on Ubuntu so Try Lucid 528.05 version.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1756166

Specs:

Dell Latitude E6420

http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/latitude-e6420/pd

Is the wireless switched on....Light showing

:::::::::

Don't want to confuse you....probably another card....
but here is what I did with a sound issue in the past.
It might give you a workaround.

" In Alsa Equaliser Mixer
I changed to >> default >> and it is now showing
>> Conexant Cx20590

Try my test mp3...as there is no bark.

= xine engine error
Input plugin failed to open mrl /mnt.

Alsa Equaliser control is off...>> I turn it on.
Alsa Mixer shows...But mp3 fails again.

Chipset says alsaequal

Hit F6 >> highlight says >> enter device name

I select >> Default

Card >> HDA Intel PCH

Chip now shows >> Conexant CX20590

Hit F5 >> give Master a few more hits upwards

Esc...Still errors. bugger bugger

But Xine plays off my usb...yeah.

Open up Pmusic to add the mp3 from SDA2.
It decides to play. "

""""""

My tip....go >>> DpupExprimo5X327

links here

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 842#653842

Chris.

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#5 Post by tempestuous »

Bill, Google tells me that your ethernet device is:
Intel 82579LM Gigabit LAN, device ID 8086:1502

and your wifi device is:
Intel Centrino 6205, device ID 8086:0082

These are both quite recent devices, so it's not surprising that an older version of Puppy such as Lucid fails to support them.

For your ethernet device, the updated e1000e driver I posted here (for Puppy Lucid) will get you going -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 685#453685

but for your wifi device, you need a newer version of the iwlagn driver, which is not possible to upgrade in Puppy Lucid.
You will need to move up to a Puppy version with newer kernel for that.
Other forum members here will point you towards an exotic range of Puppy derivatives ....
my advice is to stick with official releases - the current official release is Puppy Slacko 5.3.3.
I just checked now, and 5.3.3 supports both your ethernet and wifi device ID's.
I don't know about your audio, but there's a good chance that's supported too.

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#6 Post by Bill_Gates »

tempestuous wrote: my advice is to stick with official releases - the current official release is Puppy Slacko 5.3.3.
I just checked now, and 5.3.3 supports both your ethernet and wifi device ID's.
I don't know about your audio, but there's a good chance that's supported too.

Thank you so much tempestuous!
I downloaded Slacko 5.3.3 and now sound and network are working right out of the box!!

I do however have one minor annoyance
. I want to turn off the tap function on my touchpad, but when I run flSynclient I get the "Couldn't find symaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?". I had this with my old laptop running lupu-511. The work around was to run xorgwizard from a command line which I guess forced the driver to load and then run flSynclient again. Unfortunately this dosn’t seem to work in Slacko (or perhaps it's my new laptop)

Would you happen to know which file to edit to simply disable the tap function? It’s driving my crazy! Thanks! :?
-Bill

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#7 Post by Ray MK »

Hi Bill

go to root/etc/X11/xorg.conf

and find this section of the file


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "SynapticsMouse"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "RightEdge" "930"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "MaxTapTime" "0" <<<<<<<<<<<< this needs to be set to 0 as shown.
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.030"
Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
EndSection

HTH - very best regards - Ray
[b]Asus[/b] 701SD. 2gig ram. 8gb SSD. [b]IBM A21m[/b] laptop. 192mb ram. PIII Coppermine proc. [b]X60[/b] T2400 1.8Ghz proc. 2gig ram. 80gb hdd. [b]T41[/b] Pentium M 1400Mhz. 512mb ram.

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#8 Post by Bill_Gates »

Thanks Ray. Unfortunally none of that is in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. All that is in the InputDevice section is the following

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Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2" #mouse0protocol
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
	#Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
	#Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
	Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #scrollwheel
EndSection
I'm guessing this is because the synaptics driver is not loaded.
-Bill

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#9 Post by Ray MK »

Bill - you could try this - but make a backup of xorg.conf first. (xorg.conf.bak)

Unzip and rename the attatched generic laptop file to “xorg.conf
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