Dell Inspiron Studio 1537

1. The Laptop

Manufacturer: Dell

Model: Studio 1537

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz

RAM: 2GB

Hard drive capacity: 160GB

2. Hardware

CD/DVD read: works
CD/DVD write: works
LAN: works: with Broadcom TG3 NetXtreme driver.I use tg3-3.92n-1.i386.rpm
Wireless: works (with ndiswrapper, see below)
Sound: works[with newest alsa driver
Video: works[with ati driver
USB: works
Firewire: not tested
Media card reader: not tested
Touchpad or other pointing device: works
Accelerator buttons (info, sound): don't work (Unkown key pressed)
Accelerator buttons (wireless on/of): works
Adaptive CPU speed: dont known
Sense battery level: works

3. Additional information

3.1. wireless

#script to install wireless network on DELL 1537
#first extract files in windows driver bcmwl5.inf,bcmwl5.sys,bcmwl5.sys,bcm43xx.cat to ./wlan foler
#download newest ndiswrapper to current folder
echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' | tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
cp ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz /root
cd /root
tar -xzvf ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz
cd ndiswrapper-1.53
make && make install
cd /mnt/usb
cd wlan
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -ma
modprobe ndiswrapper
echo 'alias wlan0 ndiswrapper' |tee -a /etc/modprobe.conf

3.2. lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2a40 (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2a41 (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2919 (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2929 (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 95c4
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device aa28
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 1698 (rev 10)
09:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832 (rev 05)
09:01.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
09:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 12)
09:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
09:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)