ASUS ExpertBook B9450CEA

Hardware PCI/USB ID Working?
GPU 8086:9a49 Yes
Ethernet (via mHDMI adapter) 8086:15fc Yes
Wireless 8086:a0f0 Yes
Bluetooth 8087:0026 Yes
Touchpad 04f3:3134 Yes
Webcam HD/IR 13d3:56eb Yes
Speakers 8086:a0c8 Yes
Microphone 8086:a0c8 Yes
Keyboard backlight - Yes
TPM (2.0) unknown Untested
Fingerprint reader unknown Untested

This article applies to B9450CEA-XH75 (16G RAM/1TB SSD) and B9450CEA-XH77 (32G RAM/2TB SSD).

Summary

The 2nd generation of ASUS ExpertBook B9450 with 11th Gen Intel CPU with Intel Xe graphics.

Models are B9450CEA-* compared to B9450FA-* of the 1st generation.

BIOS

To boot from a USB stick, you may have to turn off Fast Boot and Secure Boot: How to boot the system from USB flash drive/CD-ROM.

Warning Even though the model line is B9450CEA, in BIOS and on the official support page it is indicated as B9400CEA.

dmidecode will also display Product Name as ASUS EXPERTBOOK B9400CEA_B9450CEA and BIOS Version as, e.g., B9400CEA.301.

Audio

This laptop requires Sound Open Firmware in order for the soundcard to work.

Suspend mode

See Power management/Suspend and hibernate#Changing suspend method.

Function keys

Key Visible? Marked? Effect
Fn+Esc No Yes Enables Fn lock
Fn+F1 Yes Yes XF86AudioMute
Fn+F2 Yes Yes XF86AudioLowerVolume
Fn+F3 Yes Yes XF86AudioRaiseVolume
Fn+F4 Yes Yes XF86MonBrightnessDown
Fn+F5 Yes Yes XF86MonBrightnessUp
Fn+F6 Yes Yes XF86TouchpadToggle
Fn+F7 No Yes Switches keyboard backlight
Fn+F8 Yes Yes p
Fn+F9 Yes Yes l
Fn+F10 No Yes N/A
Fn+F11 Yes Yes S
Fn+F12 No Yes N/A