I tested the wired networking, bluetooth, the video card and sound output from the audio card as well as very basic use of the wireless card, All tested devices worked. I did not test the multi card reader, firewire, modem, external SATA, or any wireless cracking/AP connection stuff with the wireless card.
The video card requires installation of the nvidia drivers and a minor modification to the options for the sound card driver is required to get audio working.
I installed the Nvidia drivers using the latest version available at the NVidia website, because I had some issues getting the drivers available in the repositories to support OpenGL. The driver installation is pretty straightforward as long as you use the latest version (older versions cause weird errors during the install process). This method provides an outline on how to go about this if you need help. The latest version of the driver ("NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.15-pkg1.run" for me) DOES support the card despite what the search engine on the Nvidia site may tell you.
Modify sound card parameters in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base by adding the following line to the end of the file:
Code:
options snd_hda_intel index=0 model=toshiba
Reboot the system or unload & reload the snd_hda_intel module and restart alsa (/etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart) to make sound work after making the change above.
The wireless card appears to be working OK, although I don't have any working access points in the area to test on - even to perform a basic connectivity test (this is a work system and we don't run a wireless network). Kismet was able to pick up a number of devices probing for connection in the area. Here are some of the relevant outputs
Code:
itsecurity@bt:~$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn Mode:Monitor Frequency:5.58 GHz Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Code:
itsecurity@bt:~$ sudo lspci -v | grep -A 10 -i wireless
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1201
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
Memory at ff9fe000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number <removed>
Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
Kernel modules: iwlagn
A hardware listing:
Code:
itsecurity@bt:~$ sudo lshw -short
H/W path Device Class Description
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system TECRA P10
/2 bus Portable PC
/2/0 memory 96KiB BIOS
/2/4 processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz
/2/4/12 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/2/4/13 memory 6MiB L2 cache
/2/4/0.1 processor Logical CPU
/2/4/0.2 processor Logical CPU
/2/81 memory 4GiB System Memory
/2/81/0 memory 2GiB SODIMM Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
/2/81/1 memory 2GiB SODIMM Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
/2/100 bridge Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub
/2/100/1 bridge Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port
/2/100/1/0 display G86M [Quadro NVS 150M]
/2/100/3 communication Mobile 4 Series Chipset MEI Controller
/2/100/19 eth0 network 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection
/2/100/1a bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
/2/100/1a.1 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
/2/100/1a.2 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
/2/100/1a.7 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
/2/100/1b multimedia 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
/2/100/1c bridge 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1
/2/100/1c/0 wmaster0 network Wireless WiFi Link 5100
/2/100/1c.1 bridge 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2
/2/100/1c.2 bridge 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3
/2/100/1d bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
/2/100/1d.1 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
/2/100/1d.2 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
/2/100/1d.7 bus 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
/2/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/2/100/1e/b bridge RL5c476 II
/2/100/1e/b.1 bus R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
/2/100/1e/b.2 system R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter
/2/100/1e/b.3 generic Illegal Vendor ID
/2/100/1e/b.4 system R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
/2/100/1e/b.5 system xD-Picture Card Controller
/2/100/1f bridge ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller
/2/100/1f.2 scsi2 storage ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller
/2/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 200GB Hitachi HTS72202
/2/100/1f.2/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 178GiB EXT3 volume
/2/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 7773MiB Extended partition
/2/100/1f.2/0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 7773MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/2/100/1f.2/1 /dev/cdrom3 disk DVD-RAM UJ870BJ
/3 power 3R1F2Y
/0 ide0 bus IDE Channel 0
/1 ide1 bus IDE Channel 0
Toshiba Tecra P10
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