No PS/2 ports on the E521/C521.. and the USB problem, whatever it is, also affects other USB devices. Until the BIOS update my printer and scanner didn't work either, but a thumb drive and my digital camera did.

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@DELL-Victor L wrote:

Thanks for the link -- I had not encountered that issue before. It looks like a quick workaround would be to use a usb -> ps/2 mouse adaptor and use the ps/2 interface, but other than that (and the workarounds mentioned in bugzilla.kernel.org and on launchpad.net -- messing with interrupt routing, flashing the bios, custom-compiling kernels, etc.) I do not have a solution I can offer -- the bug does not appear to have been root caused.

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Our goal with all Dell systems is to use standard Linux drivers, and to make sure those drivers are open-source and in the upstream kernel and distributions. Through our Feisty testing, we have found several bugs with drivers related to our hardware. We expect these to be fixed in Feisty updates, and those should also be upstream as well as in Gutsy

Ben:

I'm curious how well the corporate culture of Dell is melding with the more open culture of the free/open source development model.

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@Ben Collins wrote:
Interesting, most people have the opposite problem (livecd works, alternate doesn't).

It's always an interesting situation, mainly because the kernel on both is the same (at least with feisty and newer).

Possibly check the dmesg output for clues. Is there more than one CD/DVD drive on this machine?

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That specific problem was allready in the Linux Dell forum here... anyway.

The ide-generic module makes the device working, the desktop CD doesn't load the module despite it's in the initramfs.

I have a Dimension C521. I installed Ubuntu 7.04 for AMD 64. During the install the mouse froze. After I finally got it installed, the mouse randomly freezes. I also tried installing SuSe 10.2 for AMD 64, and the same thing happened. Is this machine incompatible with Linux? Should I try Fedora?

Thanks.

Interesting, most people have the opposite problem (livecd works, alternate doesn't).

It's always an interesting situation, mainly because the kernel on both is the same (at least with feisty and newer).

Possibly check the dmesg output for clues. Is there more than one CD/DVD drive on this machine?

Good morning John! I've been looking for the conexant modem drivers that Dell has been promising to make available. Two weeks ago, I was told it would be 1 to 2 weeks. Here we are, two weeks later, and they are still not available for download. Is there any news regarding this problem?

We ship a copy of Ubuntu 7.04 with the system, so you should be able to reinstall if your hard drive crashes. We also have info about bugs and workarounds here: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.04

Hi, I'm Ben Collins, Ubuntu Kernel Team Lead. I'll be here as well to help answer questions.

In the new Intel Designs there are trusted computing features, that prevent for example Viruses spreading themselves. This works with Visa. Will it work with Ubuntu to?

Thanks! When a new Dell is shipped with Ubuntu, what is the mechanism for any recover that might be needed later? Do you ship a separate recovery CD?

deezy23,

Could you format your message so that we can understand it a bit better.

Basically I have this card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16839121008

iwconfig lists it as a rt 61 card

It shows up in the admin config, and I can actually see the wireless access points around my home. When I try to connect to my AP (which is only mac filtered and I've preset the allowed mac's) the trying to connect to network spinning icon does it's thing then eventunally after 1-2 minutes stops and goes back to the computer icon with exclamation point "no network connection"

I've read the issues and posts about this particular chipset, but it seems this card is working out of the box since it identifys the card and picks up the AP's...why do you think I'm unable to connect?!?

Below are some command’s I ran to check the card:

denver@Gambit:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5B:98:10:3A
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:60 (60.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xcc00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)

ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:854:6C:F7
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2760 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:167 errors:3 dropped:3 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:6 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:236344 (230.8 KiB) TX bytes:2284 (2.2 KiB)
Interrupt:18

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denver@Gambit:~$ iwlist scanning
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

ra0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:13:10:FA:E6:46
ESSID:"all kikr"
Mode:Managed
Channel:5
Encryption keyff
Quality:61/100 Signal level:-64 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Cell 02 - Address: 00:18:39:45:96:6E
ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed
Channel:8denver@Gambit:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
vendor: RaLink
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@02:09.0
logical name: ra0
version: 00
serial: 00:14:85:d4:6c:f7
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=RT61STA driverversion=1.1.0 CVS latency=64 multicast=yes wireless=RT61 Wireless
resources: iomemory:fdef8000-fdefffff irq:18
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
vendor: 3Com Corporation
physical id: c
bus info: pci@02:0c.0
logical name: eth0
version: 78
serial: 00:06:5b:98:10:3adenver@Gambit:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
vendor: RaLink
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@02:09.0
logical name: ra0
version: 00
serial: 00:14:85:d4:6c:f7
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=RT61STA driverversion=1.1.0 CVS latency=64 multicast=yes wireless=RT61 Wireless
resources: iomemory:fdef8000-fdefffff irq:18
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
vendor: 3Com Corporation
physical id: c
bus info: pci@02:0c.0
logical name: eth0
version: 78
serial: 00:06:5b:98:10:3a
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=3c59x latency=64 maxlatency=10 mingnt=10 multicast=yes
resources: ioport:ec80-ecff iomemory:fdef7c00-fdef7c7f irq:18

width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=3c59x latency=64 maxlatency=10 mingnt=10 multicast=yes
resources: ioport:ec80-ecff iomemory:fdef7c00-fdef7c7f irq:18

Encryption keyn
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-74 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Cell 03 - Address: 00:90:4C:7E:00:6E
ESSID:"NETGEAR"
Mode:Managed
Channel:11
Encryption keyn
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-88 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm

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denver@Gambit:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
vendor: RaLink
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@02:09.0
logical name: ra0
version: 00
serial: 00:14:85:d4:6c:f7
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=RT61STA driverversion=1.1.0 CVS latency=64 multicast=yes wireless=RT61 Wireless
resources: iomemory:fdef8000-fdefffff irq:18
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
vendor: 3Com Corporation
physical id: c
bus info: pci@02:0c.0
logical name: eth0
version: 78
serial: 00:06:5b:98:10:3a
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=3c59x latency=64 maxlatency=10 mingnt=10 multicast=yes
resources: ioport:ec80-ecff iomemory:fdef7c00-fdef7c7f irq:18


I checked in my router and it's showing the Gambit ubuntu pc is being assigned a IP via DHCP...so any ideas?

Sorry I ment Vista not Visa.