Debian Installation :: How To Control Cooling Fan On Dell Vostro 1520

Feb 22, 2015

I have a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop and dual boot Windows 7 and Debian 7.8 64-bit. Windows 7 does use a lot of resources and the cooling fan kicks in almost all the time and it's a bit noisy. So I installed Debian which makes a big difference as it uses less resources so the fan is on less often.I just installed LXDE desktop to try to reduce this even further and I must say it is much better but fan still comes on even when laptop is quite cool so not sure why fan is kicking in so early.

Any best software to control when the fan comes on. If there are any good tools that are easy to install for someone who is quite new to linux? URL...

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Ubuntu Networking :: How To Get Dell Vostro 1520 WLAN To Work

Mar 31, 2010

I just installed 9.10 on a brand new Dell Vostro 1520. The WLAN card does NOT work out of the box.

Here is what you have to do.
After install and rebooting insert the live CD
Go to software sources (system > software sources)and check the "officially supported restricted copyright" box
You are then asked to update the available software list, do so.
You will receive an error message since you are not (yet) connected to the internet and all the other repositories are not available.

Now you should be notified that restricted drivers are available, if not you can go to system > hardware. Anyway, now you should be able to activate the Broadcom STA driver. After rebooting you can connect to available wireless networks.

Alternative (in case you are not asked, which happened to me on another Vostro system) system>administration>syaptic package manager
Search for broadcom
Mark b43-fwcutter and bcmwl-kernel-sources for installation
Reboot (who said there is no rebooting required in linux)
The adapter should be up and running ...

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My lshw output.

*-display:0 UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
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1 ) Machine Brand and Model (PC/Laptop):Dell Vostro 1520 (Laptop)

2 ) Wireless Brand, Model and Wireless Chipset:

Code:

alexander@alexander-V1520:~$ lspci -nn | grep 'Broadcom'
0e:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

3 ) Check interface:

Code:

alexander@alexander-V1520:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:e8:c3:d5:2e
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::224:e8ff:fec3:d52e/64 Scope:Link

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In System-->Administration-->Additional Drivers I've enabled the 'Broadcom STA wireless driver' and its noted as 'This driver is activated and currently in use.' Changes I made

- I've activated the Nvidia driver.
- I've installed Boxee (media center)
- I'm using CPU frequency scalers for both my cores.
- I've updated my system and am using maverick-security, -updates and -proposed.
- I've installed b43-fwcutter
- I've installed firmware-b43-lpphy-installer

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It was fine until a few weeks ago when it started to fail.

Here is the error message :

What should I do to fix that ? I use my laptop to go on the Internet and I don't remember modifying/installing anything that could make this happen.

I found the answer : [URL] ....

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I have laptop Dell Vostro V13:

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I'll provide this info, if this can help to improve Debian on this hardware. I always see this ACPI errors in dmesg:

[ 0.084001] ACPI Error: ACPI path has too many parent prefixes (^) - reached beyond root node (20090903/nsaccess-429)
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i also attached full dmesg, and some outputs. Hope, that this can be useful for core developers.

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Code:
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Code:
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SCSI

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