Swapping Hard Drives from Laptop to Laptop

[rokytnji]

Well, I got itchy. I recieved my Dell E5500 from fedex. A good friend gave it to me.
It had XP on a slow 5400 rpm 120 gig sata hard drive. On my Compaq CQ57. I had installed Linux Lite
on a GPT  Apple SSD drive.  Info on it coming presently.

Only fix I needed for the swap is this dell has broadcom wireless. I followed my own tutorial I posted at LQ last year on dealing with this.
I hooked up to my hard line and followed my instructions here.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/rokytnji-396422/broadcom-wireless-35655/

Rebooted. Posting wirelessly here now on this

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harry@biker1:~$ inxi -zv7
System:    Host: biker1 Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.8.2)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.11.6 (Gtk 2.24.23) info: xfce4-panel dm: lightdm Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
Machine:   System: Dell product: Latitude E5500 Chassis: type: 8
           Mobo: Dell model: 0DW635 Bios: Dell v: A17 date: 09/27/2011
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo T7250 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 7973
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800 MHz 2: 800 MHz
Memory:    Using dmidecode: you must be root to run dmidecode
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:2a42
           Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: [email protected]
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express x86/MMX/SSE2
           GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:293e
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
           driver: tg3 v: 3.134 bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:1674
           IF: eth1 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY driver: b43-pci-bridge bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4315
           IF: wlan2 state: up mac: <filter>
           WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth1 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A
           IF: wlan2 ip: <filter> ip-v6: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 121.3GB (34.5% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: APPLE_SSD_SM128 size: 121.3GB serial: DFKU604844ED440
           Optical: /dev/sr0 model: TSST CDRWDVD TS-L463A rev: D400 dev-links: cdrom
           Features: speed: 24x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw state: running
Partition: ID-1: / size: 8.6G used: 4.3G (53%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           label: / uuid: 24580b54-b3d7-418a-96f2-6bbbf1ccccff
           ID-2: /home size: 103G used: 35G (36%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sda2
           label: /home uuid: 65f560b2-63b4-41e0-9d4e-4597d237493b
RAID:      System: supported: N/A
           No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
           Unused Devices: none
Unmounted: No unmounted partitions detected
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.5C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 159 Uptime: 22 min Memory: 457.9/1971.9MB
           Init: Upstart v: 1.12.1 runlevel: 2 default: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.111 running in x-terminal-emul) inxi: 2.2.1
harry@biker1:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
   1280x800       60.0*+   40.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3     56.2  
   640x480        59.9  
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
TV1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
harry@biker1:~$ glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.327 FPS
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.631 FPS
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.639 FPS
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.624 FPS
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.636 FPS

Like I said and will reiterate now. The only tweak/fix I needed was


sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

After checking at
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
1st to make sure my chip was in the YES part of the column.

14e4:4315

yes

BCM4312

Using this to double check

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$ lspci -vnn -d 14e4:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1674]
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0263]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
Memory at f68f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: tg3

0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f69fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge