Toshiba Satellite U500-*

Introduction
This article describes the installation and setup of the Toshiba Satellite laptop, an Intel Centrino 2 model U500-11C. It comes with an ATI graphic card. Other models may come with an Intel graphic card.

Hardware Status
Graphic card (ATI) - OK    Sound card - OK     Webcam - OK     Touchpad - OK     Ethernet network - OK     Wireless network - OK     ACPI - OK (some grub adaptation needed) Suspend to RAM - OK    Suspend to disk - OK

Bluetooth - KO

System Specifications
lspci -k

lsusb

Networking
To manage the ethernet or wireless connection, you may use wicd (emerge wicd).

Ethernet
The ethernet card is: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller

Wireless
The wireless card is: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100

WEP, WPA, WPA2 runs without problem.

Bluetooth
No solution yet

X.org
This notebook may come with an ATI or an Intel graphic card.

cat /etc/make.conf

ATI - radeon
Choose a graphics driver from those available for your card and follow the linked guide.

Sound
lsmod (relevant modules)

Webcam
lsmod (relevant modules)

Grub configuration
By default, the fan doesn't run (the laptop may overheat).

In grub configuration file (grub.conf), an acpi parameter has to be passed to the kernel. To solve this problem, "acpi.power_nocheck=1" is needed. cat grub.conf

Kernel configuration
cat /usr/src/linux/.config (Kernel version: 2.6.31.4 - x86_64)