Dell E521

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Hi David,

We bought an E521 and have similar issues. Since we bought it with a 24" W 
monitor, we were able to use the usb hub on the monitor.

I tried FC5/6 and had troubles with both. Finally, I installed CentOS 4 
and that seems to be working.

FC6 -> 2.6.18-x
Install will complete.
Broadcom 10/100 card wont work. The OS thinks its a wireless card.
I can boot the smp kernel. But I get lots of messages about hogging 
interrupts.

CentOS -> 2.6.9-42.EL
Install smoothly. Will freeze trying to bring up networking. Disabled on 
board ethernet. Put in a 3com card and that works. Will freeze trying to 
boot SMP, only single core works now.
Random keyboard/mouse freeze still happens(infrequent)

I hope Dell does something to fix.

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, David Siebert wrote:

> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:14:39 -0800 (PST)
> From: David Siebert <glwatcdr at yahoo.com>
> To: linux-desktops at dell.com
> Subject: Dell E521
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> I got a Dell E521 for Linux development.
> It has been one problem after another. The USB ports don't seem to work that well. It looses the mouse and or keyboard randomly. The thing is I am not the only one having this issue. It seems to effect BSD, Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSuse.
> I went and bought a USB card and that works fine but I only have two slots and now both are full.
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