On 3/16/20 9:50 AM, Andrii Borovyi
wrote:
Once again I though about getting a dock station for my
Dell Vostro 3360. Seems like there is no easy solution there.
The only thing I discovered is to switch to Latitude or XPS
models (sorry, but no Inspiron nor Vostro) that have support
for docking stations. Unfortunately, that's the only result of
my research I came to. Maybe with newer DELL's the situation
is easier, but it's hard to say for sure.
Kind regards,
Andrii
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Дата: 16 березня 2020, 14:42:50
Asking this OT question here because this is my go to list for questions,
especially ones for which I don't belong to a list that might be more specific
to this subject.
Background: I've installed Buster on an old laptop (my newest laptop, a Dell
Inspiron 1501) and I'm working on installing other software (gcc+, make, git,
Python and such) so that I can take the laptop to various meetings where I
hope to get help on some software I'm trying to write (in C/C++ and Python).
I'm thinking about buying a laptop docking station to make it easier to
disconnect the laptop to take it to meetings.
I don't know much about a laptop docking station except that the ones I've
looked at seem to need only a USB (C or A) cable to connect the laptop to the
docking station. (I'm about 90% sure that the Inspiron 1501 does not have a
USB-C port.)
(Aside: I need to get a docking station with a VGA output as I "run" the
laptop through a KVM switch and one of the computers connected to it has no
HDMI output, and the KVM switch itself has no HDMI input.)
I get the idea (or I am jumping to the conclusion?) that there is some
hardware in the docking station (like graphics and audio chips) which I'm
assuming would need to be supported by Buster.
Is that correct?
Any recommendations for a suitable docking station?
Take a look at the WAVLINK USB 3.0 Universal Docking Station (Rev
3). It has a disc for win drivers, but also has support for mac and
linux. The linux drivers are community supplied, but do say that
they are well supported. I'm considering this one for myself. At the
moment, I'm setting up a win box for my gf using it, just to see how
it behaves.If it works as advertised, I'll do a little more digging
into the community drivers and then grab a second one and give it a
go on one of my older laptops running Debian...
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