Dell Inspiron 8500

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Dell Inspiron 8500

1 Hardware
2 Hardware Status Overview
3 Dell Laptop guides
4 Generic Laptop guides

[edit] Hardware

15.4 inch display @ 1680x1050 or 1920x1200
Intel Pentium M or Mobile Pentium 4 processors
Intel i845MP chipset (ICH4-M)
Up to 2GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go or ATI Mobility FireGL 9000
Alps GlidePad touchpad
hard drive
DVD-ROM or DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo optical drive
USB floppy drive
Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Fast Ethernet
Dell TrueMobile 1150 / 1300 wifi
Bluetooth
PCTel 2304WT modem
SMC IrDA
Intel AC'97 Audio with Sigmatel 9750 codec
USB 2.0
Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC Card controller
Texas Instruments PCI4510 Firewire controller
parallel port
serial port

[edit] Hardware Status Overview

	Device	Working	Driver	Troubleshooting
Processor	Processor
Drives and Storage	Hard Drive		ata_piix
	Optical Drive		ata_piix
	Firewire		ohci1394
	Floppy Drive		usb_storage	Needs USB support
USB	USB		uhci, ehci
Graphics	ATI		fglrx, radeon, radeonhd
	NVIDIA		nvidia
Input Devices	Keyboard		keyboard
	Touchpad		synaptics
	Functions Keys
Networking	Ethernet		b44
	WLAN: Dell		b43, ndiswrapper
	Modem	unknown
	Bluetooth		hci_usb
	IrDA	unknown	smsc-ircc2
Sound	Sound		snd-intel8x0
Other	PC Card	unknown	yenta_socket
	Hardware Sensors	unknown	i8k
	Suspend to RAM	unknown
	Suspend to Disk	unknown