Configure Bunsen in Dell Inspiron 7559

adawolfs · 2016-05-23 15:15:07

Hello

I'm trying to configure bunsen in my Dell Inspiron 7559, but I'm having problems to make my wireless card (Intel 3165) works, and there is also a problem when I try to shutdown/restart the system it just keeps freezing until I force it, can you help me?

Horizon_Brave · 2016-05-23 15:28:46

Hi,

How did you install bunsen? Did you run through the welcome script and made sure everything is up to date?

Post the output this :

lspci -knn|grep -iA2 'net'

It should show your card's information. This is most likely a driver issue.

As for the shutdown/restart, can you check your journal logs to see what they show when you try to shut down?
You may be running into a similar issue here in this thread , dealing with acpi.

Last edited by Horizon_Brave (2016-05-23 15:33:06)

damo · 2016-05-23 15:30:40

It may be that your hardware is "too new" for the current Stable kernel, so you probably need a newer one.

See this thread for a solution to a problem with similar hardware: [SOLVED] Right click on touchpad doesn't work

PS I would personally be interested in answers for this machine, because I have been thinking of getting one!

adawolfs · 2016-05-23 16:02:44

damo wrote:

It may be that your hardware is "too new" for the current Stable kernel, so you probably need a newer one.
See this thread for a solution to a problem with similar hardware: [SOLVED] Right click on touchpad doesn't work
PS I would personally be interested in answers for this machine, because I have been thinking of getting one!

I've installed the newest kernel version 4.5 but when the system tries to start it just keep showing a blinking promt

damo · 2016-05-23 16:19:36

Does it have nvidia graphics?

adawolfs · 2016-05-23 16:20:54

damo wrote:

Does it have nvidia graphics?

Yes!

adawolfs · 2016-05-23 16:26:15

Horizon_Brave wrote:

Hi,
How did you install bunsen? Did you run through the welcome script and made sure everything is up to date?
Post the output this :
lspci -knn|grep -iA2 'net'
It should show your card's information. This is most likely a driver issue.
As for the shutdown/restart, can you check your journal logs to see what they show when you try to shut down?
You may be running into a similar issue here in this thread , dealing with acpi.

this is what I get

04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 10)
    Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0706]
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3165] (rev 79)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4410]
06:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:522a] (rev 01)

Last edited by adawolfs (2016-05-23 16:29:12)

damo · 2016-05-23 16:37:55

You likely need a more recent driver and linux kernel headers.
Debian NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

If you can start a tty from the screen with the blinking cursor (Ctrl-Alt-F1) then the procedure should be reasonably easy. Here is my cheatsheet for nvidia installation (NB this is for Stable. Change the nvidia apt-get commands to use backports, as shown on the Debian page)

NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
---------------------
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
1) Go to TTY1 (ctrl-alt-F1), then login as root: "sudo su -"
2) Stop the X server with "systemctl stop lightdm.service"
3) "apt-get install nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig nvidia-driver"
This will also build the kernel nvidia module
4) Create xorg server config file [ important to do this before restarting X!!]
"nvidia-xconfig" [ error messages can usually be ignored ]
5) Reboot, to blacklist nouveau
5) set up monitors with nvidia-settings (although arandr should work)

Another option is to use the graphics script in 'smxi', but you will have to manually rebuild the kernel headers and xorg.conf after kernel updates (smxi also handles kernels BTW). YMMV, and smxi has its detractors hereabouts, but I used it successfully for a long time when running SID.

If all else fails you can presumably easily start from scratch, hopefully with one of the hardware experts on hand!

adawolfs · 2016-05-23 17:14:51

I've tried but I've failed, I think I'll back to bunsen for a next release, I need a quick solution so I'm installing ubuntu there is more drivers and support for "newer hardware"... thanks you all!

Horizon_Brave · 2016-05-23 17:32:20

adawolfs wrote:

I've tried but I've failed, I think I'll back to bunsen for a next release, I need a quick solution so I'm installing ubuntu there is more drivers and support for "newer hardware"... thanks you all!

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-05-23 18:30:00

For reference:

adawolfs wrote:

wireless card (Intel 3165)

This requires a >4.1 kernel [1] (which the OP tried) and also the backported version of the firmware-iwlwifi package:
https://packages.debian.org/jessie-back … re-iwlwifi

adawolfs wrote:

when I try to shutdown/restart the system it just keeps freezing until I force it

Possible solutions here:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=1933

And yes, Ubuntu is probably a better fit for the OP.

[1] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use … rs/iwlwifi

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