tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post7300100085842770103..comments2022-04-04T19:31:25.720+03:00Comments on Losca: Unboxing and Tinkering Dell Latitude 2110 with Ubuntu 9.10TJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17762291681744356830noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-63091045172073523132011-03-02T19:51:58.071+02:002011-03-02T19:51:58.071+02:00Thank you for taking the time to write up your exp...Thank you for taking the time to write up your experiences. I bought a 2110 on the basis of your experiences. I also owned a 2100 with Win XP previously, which I regretted selling afterwards. (The Dell hardware design is so nice.) Anyway, 10.04 LTS runs beautifully of course. I also tried 10.10. That was not so nice! The machine isn't really powerfully enough for it and anyway I didn't like the new user interface. My advice to anyone out there thinking about upgrading an Atom based system to Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.10, is don't do it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-83505486945242439692010-10-21T21:01:37.315+03:002010-10-21T21:01:37.315+03:00finor: Hardware-wise 1520 is dual-band (ie. suppor...finor: Hardware-wise 1520 is dual-band (ie. supports also 5GHz frequencies). Theoretically useful, not sure if it really matters at all.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762291681744356830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-15342650526901869242010-10-16T20:37:25.215+03:002010-10-16T20:37:25.215+03:00I see.. Thanks, Timo!
And if to consider cards the...I see.. Thanks, Timo!<br />And if to consider cards themselves, don't you know, is 1520 significantly better? It's a bit more expensive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-39266640266706579552010-10-14T23:56:27.638+03:002010-10-14T23:56:27.638+03:00Hi finor. I have the 1520. Both should work under ...Hi finor. I have the 1520. Both should work under Ubuntu, although if I have one caveat about the Dell hw, it's the WLAN - but it's Broadcom's fault, not Dell's (except maybe bad purchase decision on Dell's behalf).<br /><br />The "wl" driver from Broadcom, a closed driver, works, but sucks in eg. terms of power consumption (CPU wakeups) and the time it takes to connect to the network. The open b43 driver doesn't support 1520, and only partially (read: not perhaps useably) 1501.<br /><br />Now month ago Broadcom finally released their own open source driver for some of their newer chipsets, including the ones used in Dell Wireless 1501 (id 14e4:4727) and 1520 (id 14e4:4353). That driver also sucks and is not ready for general use, but at least it's a something to start open driver development with for these newer Broadcoms.<br /><br />To put shortly: yes Broadcom's driver shipped with Ubuntu in the restricted component supports both of them, but if there is just one gripe about Dell Latitude 2110, it's that even Dell didn't get Broadcom to make their drivers good. However, it works and future should be better.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762291681744356830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-71918309797688627392010-10-14T14:52:40.275+03:002010-10-14T14:52:40.275+03:00Hi,
Which WLAN card do you have? I have two choice...Hi,<br />Which WLAN card do you have? I have two choices: <br />Dell™Drahtlose 1520 802.11a/g/n Draft Mini Karte<br />and <br />EMEA Dell™ Drahtlose 1501 (802.11 b/g/n 1x1) Mini Karte<br />(sorry for german lang.).<br />And I don't know, whether both work fine under Ubuntu, so it's better to rely on someone's experience, I guess..)<br />Thanks a lot in advance!<br />Sincerely,<br />IakovAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-82401589506930007782010-09-03T08:44:41.382+03:002010-09-03T08:44:41.382+03:00Dirk: Oops I didn't realize some people might ...Dirk: Oops I didn't realize some people might not have an environment where the package just works. However, let's give "a bit" simpler instructions :<br /><br />1. Install package "dkms"<br />2. Install the SD card package<br /><br />I'm not sure, but dkms should/might be in the default installation of Ubuntu as well, since it's nowadays the "kernel modules made easy" way of compiling modules from sources.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762291681744356830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-21590915385360926572010-09-02T18:03:44.151+03:002010-09-02T18:03:44.151+03:00For the sake of other newbie idiots like me, who s...For the sake of other newbie idiots like me, who spent some time surfing the Web before I got it to work, here is what you need to do after installing the realtek... deb.<br /><br />1. Get a proper root shell, e.g. by “sudo su”. Some of the steps don't work if you try to sudo them one by one.<br />2. Install linux-source.<br />3. Go to /usr/src and unpack the kernel source. Something like<br /> tar -xvjf linux-... <br />where the dots stand for the file name of the kernel source. You can probably get it by just pressing Tab after the “l”.<br />4. cd to realtek... (Tab useful again)<br />5. make<br />6. make install<br />7. depmod<br />8. reboot<br /><br />Inserting an SD card now causes the volume to show up under Files&Folders or Places.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13159457383444933301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-73258545735128505652010-09-01T13:51:44.445+03:002010-09-01T13:51:44.445+03:00Dirk: Thanks for the suggestion. Since SD card the...Dirk: Thanks for the suggestion. Since SD card the driver is GPLv2, I added the .deb linked from the post. The other packages are either not distributable or not interesting.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762291681744356830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-48489777143032116902010-09-01T13:05:10.815+03:002010-09-01T13:05:10.815+03:00On the strength of this review I ordered a 2110 th...On the strength of this review I ordered a 2110 through my University's IT Department, specifying the Ubuntu OS. I received it with XP installed on the whole disk. I complained, and one of the two Linux users in IT installed Ubuntu for me from a Netbook install disk. Unfortunately, none of the Dell customization packages are on that, so my SD card reader is dead.<br /><br />Timo, you've been nice once and sent someone the card driver deb to a gmail address. Too many of us, and it will get boring. How about making the ten custom debs clickable from this blog?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13159457383444933301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-36289401207150787392010-08-01T11:10:25.011+03:002010-08-01T11:10:25.011+03:00Anonymous: The 2110 drove my 1920x1080 screen just...Anonymous: The 2110 drove my 1920x1080 screen just fine. Although it may be necessary to turn off the internal screen while driving high resolutions.<br /><br />TenPhil: Sent :)TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762291681744356830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-70240835926590323332010-07-31T21:54:43.107+03:002010-07-31T21:54:43.107+03:00Hey, so it seems that I have the same problem as c...Hey, so it seems that I have the same problem as cyplo. Could you send me over the driver as well?TenPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953777799018697869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-90954658744288709142010-07-28T11:05:37.550+03:002010-07-28T11:05:37.550+03:00Were you able to test it with an external monitor ...Were you able to test it with an external monitor and see what the maximum resolution possible of the graphics card?<br /><br />I would like to use the 2110 with an external monitor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-87020664042457306712010-07-12T13:12:40.753+03:002010-07-12T13:12:40.753+03:00Thanks a lot for the driver !
Apparently package c...Thanks a lot for the driver !<br />Apparently package contains sources, so not that bad for the driver finally ending up in kernel. If I can help somehow in getting it in the main kernel branch, let me knowCyryl Płotnicki-Chudykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924043168847261065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-3233173618158862882010-07-12T11:37:36.289+03:002010-07-12T11:37:36.289+03:00cyplo: Sure, I sent the realtek-rts-pstor-sd-card-...cyplo: Sure, I sent the realtek-rts-pstor-sd-card-driver-dkms_1.0_all.deb to your gmail address.<br /><br />As a sidenote, on my todo list is to find out what's the status of eg. getting that card reader supported with mainline kernel. Once again also that vendor-provided driver seems quite ugly, it's doing polling tens of times per second... meh. I don't have it installed at the moment.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762291681744356830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-14421915392256613012010-07-11T19:06:40.225+03:002010-07-11T19:06:40.225+03:00hello there !
I just got my latitude 2110, but los...hello there !<br />I just got my latitude 2110, but lost the disk contents during tinkering with it. The thing I cannot find anywhere on the net, even on the Dell's customer support is the card reader driver. Could you by any chance send me the driver package ?Cyryl Płotnicki-Chudykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924043168847261065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-55703764545989303262010-07-11T16:40:35.769+03:002010-07-11T16:40:35.769+03:00TenPhil: No problem. I chose the 16GB, since from ...TenPhil: No problem. I chose the 16GB, since from previous usage I know it's quite enough for mini laptop usage.<br /><br />I did have the option of 2GB RAM, and it wouldn't even have cost that much extra, but I figured out that if I need more than 1GB of RAM for my basic browsing et cetera usage, there is a problem with the software and not the lack of RAM.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762291681744356830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-82882049175958883382010-07-11T16:34:15.230+03:002010-07-11T16:34:15.230+03:00I'm going to bother you one last time with two...I'm going to bother you one last time with two questions;<br />1) did you go for the 16 or 64gb? It seems to me that the extra for the 64 is not worth it.<br />2) Did you have the option of getting it with 2gb ram?TenPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953777799018697869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-64017693637761920722010-07-11T15:53:11.145+03:002010-07-11T15:53:11.145+03:00TenPhil: I chose 2110 over 2100 because of the new...TenPhil: I chose 2110 over 2100 because of the newer Atom processor (N470 vs. N270) and the option to choose high resolution display. The new Atom has integrated graphics inside the chip and is both faster and consumes less power than the predecessor. N470 is also faster than the CPU of most competing mini laptops which usually have N450. In the netbooks CPU is a bit of a limiting factor, so it doesn't hurt to have the fastest one.<br /><br />With Ubuntu 10.04 LTS you shouldn't bump into any compatibility problems with 2110, seems to work smooth here and the WLAN problem I mentioned doesn't affect the functionality of it, it's just not pretty technically.<br /><br />And yes, I chose SSD over ordinary HDD for silence and faster booting.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762291681744356830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-72725391737737493642010-07-11T03:40:51.799+03:002010-07-11T03:40:51.799+03:00Hei, Timo!
I'm considering buying the Latitud...Hei, Timo!<br /><br />I'm considering buying the Latitude 2110 or the 2100. Did you consider one of these alternatives? If so, why did you choose the 2110?<br /><br />Reading you post, I'm a little worried moving to another comp, cause I have a FS Esprimo V5505 that I've had no compatibility problems with.<br /><br />Did you get it with a SSD or?TenPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953777799018697869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-59586558998264295222010-07-10T12:16:10.206+03:002010-07-10T12:16:10.206+03:00Hi Anonymous. Here's the link to Dell Finland&...Hi Anonymous. Here's the link to Dell Finland's Latitude 2110 page: <a href="http://www1.euro.dell.com/fi/fi/yritykset/Kannettavat/latitude-2110/pd.aspx?refid=latitude-2110&s=pad&cs=RC1077977" rel="nofollow">http://www1.euro.dell.com/fi/fi/yritykset/Kannettavat/latitude-2110/pd.aspx?refid=latitude-2110&s=pad&cs=RC1077977</a>.TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762291681744356830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939153.post-44512850026342573232010-07-10T11:40:27.526+03:002010-07-10T11:40:27.526+03:00could you post a link o the dell site you bought t...could you post a link o the dell site you bought the netbook please?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com