Anyone running Linux on optiplex 9020 (Haswell)?

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Subject says it all, I think. Preferably Ubuntu, but pretty much anything would work. TIA. BH.

DELL-Allan D · Accepted Answer

Hello Bryan.Hunter, Dell Optiplex 9020 does supports Ubuntu 12.04. The drivers for this Operating System is also available in Dell Support Site. Hope this helps!

shesagordie · Answer

The best forum to post this in, is the Linux Forum, I am moving the thread to it.Bev.

bryan.hunter · Answer

Yes, Ubuntu 12.04 works.

We are working at getting Intel's kernel changes to provide TSX support up and running. We know of others that have accomplished this with Fedora 19 using Inspiron boxes.

All done, thanks.

DELL-Allan D · Answer

Hello Bryan.Hunter, Thank you for the update! Glad to know the issue got fixed!

grghk · Answer

Running Ubuntu 12.04.* Kernel panics... Annoyed. Installed fine. runs fine, until the kernel panic.

bryan.hunter · Answer

We have a research group running 13.04 on these machines.  No extreme usage, running headless, but stable.  I recall (perhaps imperfectly) that 13.x+ Ubuntu releases include Haswell support.

strin · Answer

Hi - just bought 4 Optiplex 9020s as the Ubuntu site. Lists them as certified hardware. Trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS from CD, but NIC appears not to work hence cannot download updates during install. I've tried flashing the BIOS to A03 but no change :(

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get the NIC to work?? Same issue on all 4 desktops, so not a faulty NIC.

Thanks

strin · Answer

Will check on Monday when back in the office, thanks.

ieee488 · Answer

Hi - just bought 4 Optiplex 9020s as the Ubuntu site. Lists them as certified hardware. Trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS from CD, but NIC appears not to work hence cannot download updates during install. I've tried flashing the BIOS to A03 but no change :(

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get the NIC to work?? Same issue on all 4 desktops, so not a faulty NIC.

Thanks

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201302-12680/components/ are the components in the system they certified

is your NIC the same one?

What does executing lspci command in a Terminal window show?

strin · Answer

Ethernet output from lspci -v:

00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 153a (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Device 05a4
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
Memory at f7c00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Memory at f7c3d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at f080 [size=32]
Capabilities:

Seems I'm not the only one with this problem, as I have just come across this post:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/310442/intel-i217lm-ethernet-controller-not-detected-by-ubuntu-12-04lts

As suggested in the above post, installing the e1000e driver from the Intel e1000e drivers page worked perfectly. Seems the version of the kernel in Ubuntu 12.04 does not include this driver, but installing manually works.

ieee488 · Answer

Looks like you have found the solution. Congrats! It appears that the desktop was verified with a different version of Ubuntu.

vz33 · Answer

How to enable gnome 3 but not fallback to gnome 2 (Debain Wheezy)? I believe it's caused by the video card. I've install the firmware-linux-nonfree xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-ati

$lspci | grep "VGA"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos XTX [Radeon HD 8490 / R5 235X OEM]

Thank you.

RehmatAli · Answer

i am unable to install RHEL 6 on this Optiplex 9020 machine. installer stuck in the beginning while detecting hardware, for hours.

does anyone know about this and possible solution.

Regards,

Rehmat Ali

Linux General

Anyone running Linux on optiplex 9020 (Haswell)?

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