HCL - Dell Latitude E5440 - minor issues/no vt-d - Intel i5-4200U (4gb stock ram 16gb now) SSHD+SSD

[Codie Rae]

So, have gotten this laptop from a friend recently to use as a linux box and i instantly thought of qubes, reset the tpm and enabled it and it still has issues atm though - as well as the wired ethernet not showing in the sys-net VM devices(as far as i can see)- or the yml file - also booted and installed off of legacy(non-UEFI) as had not undone my friends settings fully yet - also this laptop model doesn't like s3 suspend in linux(although this problem i believe is even present in ubuntu) everything else works though afaik - dom0 GL/GLX/DRI since its an intel gpu, sound, usb3.0, intel wifi 802.11ac(not tried the bluetooth), the mouse is a bit touchy as its a synapics glidepoint multi-touch and afaik theres no easy way to set deadzones for "edge" detection or other things easily in the gui - i installed the OS on an SSD i put in, in place of the SSHD it came with, and replaced the cdrom drive with the SSHD and upgraded to 16gb of RAM - so majority is on the SSD, while i use the SSHD for alternate storage and vm backups - both encrypted lvm+luks - took a little messing arround with fdisk to get the installer to treat the SSHD as lvm instead of a normal disk(manually setting up pool and such - as it wouldnt let me specify it as an lvm disk without doing this[it was greyd out]) but once i did it gave me both my lvmain and lvswap pools on the SSHD - and would then let me reformat them and encrypt them - they automount at boot fine, all the vm's appear to be functioning normally[even win7 w/ Seamless GUI, and ubuntu hvm's] - with the exception of the wired ethernet/weird touchpad - but that may be because iirc, this laptop has vPro/IntelME/MEI(it may not, as its an optional feature and possibly not part of wlan module included) - also this laptop supports a dock with multiple ports the laptop doesnt have - plugged it into it but havent tried the ports in my lab yet, will post further updates - the cpu supports all the virtualization preferred by Qubes except for iommu(vt-d) isnt supported, ill list the intel ark and dell urls below - and should support anti-evil-maid as the tpm shows up in modules, just need to get it to activate among other things on my to-do list

http://ark.intel.com/products/75459/Intel-Core-i5-4200U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-2_60-GHz
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e5440-laptop/pd
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201307-13941/ (ive noted some things it claims didnt work, now do infact work on qubes, like the wifi switch)

PS if you guys want any more debug info just ask

All in all - most of this computer works out of the box if you boot with legacy enabled in bios - the rest ill tinker with another day as i have a working laptop right now - also updated lvm and initramfs;dracut and luks configs to enable TRIM on the SSD - thing has a wicked fast boot on qubes - and the vm's

[Codie Rae]

got wired ethernet working - friend had it disabled among other things