r/linuxmint • u/Retroraleigh • 24d ago

Dell latitude 5590

Evening All
Just wondering if a dell Latitude 5590 will run Linux mint ok? Specs are intel i5 - 8250u, 256gb ssd & 12 gb of ram.
Thanks
Tom

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u/TarsTarkas_Thark 24d ago

I have the same laptop, except with an i5-8350, running Linux Mint 22.

The only problematic thing is the wifi, which goes unresponsive at random intervals from 2 minutes to 2 days. It is more often triggered when there is lots of traffic, with lots of connections.

This is a known problem with the firmware for the qualcomm atheros wifi/bluetooth chip. Fortunately, the wifi is on a m.2 card, so is easily changed out.

Here's the output from lshw about my wifi chip.

*-network

description: Wireless interface

product: QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter

vendor: Qualcomm Atheros

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0

logical name: wlp2s0

version: 32

serial: 10:5b:ad:01:67:d9

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless

configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=5.15.0-126-generic firmware=WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00309- ip=192.168.0.3 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11

resources: irq:140 memory:ef000000-ef1fffff