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If you click through on the above page, you will find instructions on debugging this driver.

Have you looked at https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi ?

Perhaps running # lspci -k (as root, or with sudo if necessary) and confirming that iwlwifi is directly handling your hardware. Running # modinfo iwlwifi shows that there are several parameters for iwlwifi which might perhaps be relevant.

I am considering a 15.6" Initia AKA Clevo NL51RU. It has a single "Headphone-out/ MIC-in phone jack", but there is no specification of how many poles are needed. Presumably this is one of the TRRS standards. All my headsets have separate microphone and headphone connectors, so I will need to buy...

Sad to hear that. I would be surprised if your "music kit" could not be made to work with linux, but it might have taken a bit of work. Linux has superb sound support, but utterly ridiculously poor documentation. The underlying ALSA system is actually excellent, but has totally confused...

You would have to provide far more detail before anyone could even begin to advise on which model to select. Most of these laptops are Clevo designs. As a rule linux will run on most, if not all, but you may have to make a few small configuration tweaks. If you have some experience with linux...

I have just noticed this thread. Form what others have said, it does sound as if you simply don't have a backlight. But a simple search in the /sys/class/ directory will often help in this sort of situation. Something like $ find /sys/class/ -name "*light*" may reveal something relevant...

Good to hear. Meanwhile, I forgot to ask: has anyone looked in /sys/class/backlight/? I would expect the kernel to know about the backlight and expose it somewhere like that. I hope that doesn't go via the bios, but I suppose that it could do.

Does anyone know if PCS are shipping new machines with the latest bios, or is it still left to the customer to reflash?

Thanks for those replies. I have only just seen them :-( {Watch was set without email notification.. } Very glad to hear that CUDA works Ok. I hope with the nouveau driver. I like to be able to compile my own custom kernels, and it used to be the case that the native nvidia drivers were always...

As others had said, thanks for the review. Two quick questions: were you using the closed source nvidia driver, or nouveau for the RTX2060? And have you tried to get cuda working? Under linux, of course.

I am intending to buy a high end NOVA laptop for linux, but there seems to be little available information. I noticed https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/nova-15-bios-and-booting-from-usb-key.72377/ which suggests that PCspecialist sends out systems polluted with Windoze, and that I...

I run Debian testing and regularly use external usb drives via an USB 3 port. What mount command did you use? The fact that you had a message about the UUID sounds as if something (not hideous systemd, I hope) was guessing which drive to use and getting it wrong. To debug , I would start as...

I notice that you had "no operating system". The nvidia GPUs are especially power hungry and the device drivers need to do a lot of work to keep the power consumption down. Are you by any chance using Linux? If so, are you using the closed source nvidia drivers, or nouveau? If nouveau, there...

I have just seen the Nova! I should have checked first. This might be the same thing.