Starting to try to get a new Dell Precision 5520 laptop running

[David Wolfskill]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 05:48:54AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> ....
> One of the "sticking points" so far is that the wireless device is:
> none6 at pci0:2:0:0:	class=0x028000 card=0x00508086 chip=0x24fd8086
> rev=0x78 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device     = 'Wireless 8265 / 8275'
>     class      = network
> 
> (and I'm not sure about the "wired Ethernet" -- rather than a jack in
> the body of the laptop, Dell supplies a "Thunderbolt" dongle).

The "dongle" works OK (as ue0) as long as it's plugged in (to the
Thunderbolt port) when the kernel probes are done -- it's apparently not
hot-pluggable.

The Intel 8265 wireless works in head, as iwm0; that was committed 09
Oct 2017.  The MFC looks (to me) as if it's likely to be a bit
complicated (as there was a bit of restructuring of code among files in
head), so the set of filenames involved includes some that don't exist
in 11 (and earlier).

Unfortunately, I'm finding the graphics configuration to be the current
challenge: the Precision M4800 had a BIOS option to disable the Intel
graphics; once that was done, the Nvidia driver Just Worked.  But the
Precision 5520 BIOS does not appear to have such an option (which leaves
me wondering what the point of selling a laptop with an Nvidia graphics
adapter that is apparently not usable might be).

I note, too, that as far as I can tell, there is no keyboard shortcut to
enter Suspend mode.  I suppopse that's one way to avoid the
inconsistency in actually entering Suspend mode from the keyboard (which
is an issue I've had with the Precision M4800).

The 5520 also doesn't appear to have any sort of disk activity light (or
a visual indication of whether WiFi is active or not).

Peace,
david
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
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