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I recently purchased a cheapie Dell Inspiron 530 to use as a new local devbox with the intent of installing Fedora 7 on it (the machine came with Ubuntu Desktop pre-installed). Foolish me, I just assumed that if Ubuntu was compatible with the hardware, then Fedora surely would be as well. Fedora was unable to detect/install both the SATA controller and the integrated ethernet port. After a few hours trying to get Fedora to install, I decided to give up and give a try.
Dell Inspiron 530 User Manual
Of course it wasn’t easy, so here are some of my notes in getting Ubuntu Server installed onto the Dell Inspiron 530. I wanted to keep it simple so I just installed all of the defaults presented by the installer, including the LAMP package. Everything installed fine, however, the Integrated Network card was not detected/installed, so here’s how to get it up and running by compiling and installing the driver. First we need to install some prerequisites that are required in order to compile the driver. Make sure your Ubuntu Server CD is in the CD drive and run the following: sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.20-15-server sudo apt-get install gcc. Download the ethernet driver from.
The one I used is e1000-7.6.5.tar.gz. If you can’t find it at Intel, just Google the filename and I’m sure you’ll be able to find it somewhere. Burn the driver to a CD, mount it on your Ubuntu machine, and copy it to a local dir: sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom sudo cp /mnt/cdrom/e1000-7.6.5.tar.gz /usr/src. Compile and install the driver: cd /usr/src tar xfvz e1000-7.6.5.tar.gz cd e1000-7.6.5/src sudo make install sudo modprobe e1000.
Dell Linux Drivers
Now configure your network card: sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces and your file should look like this (substitute your IP of choice): # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces. # They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem. I just had a similar situation with a Dell Inspiron 531 while attempting to install Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS.
The installer did not detect my integrated nVidia network adapter. I fooled around for a while trying to install a different network driver–without success.
I also had to use the “noapic” option just to get the installer to start successfully. Not a very satisfying ordeal to say the least! So I decided to try Ubuntu Server 7.04 instead. Talk about “night and day”. It installed very smoothly! So I’d recommend that others in a similar consider 7.04. @Nohacks: I never was able to get Fedora running on this machine.
I just ended up sticking with Ubuntu because it worked. I’ve thought about trying a more recent Fedora to see if it would work (inevitably there have been improvements in the year+ since I originally wrote this article), but I have it working fine with Ubuntu and haven’t had the time or desire to experiment.
Sounds like the Dell guy doesn’t know what he is talking about, I bought the Inspiron 530 with Ubuntu pre-installed. What flavors/versions of Linux have you tried to install?
